I describe my ongoing lyrics writing projects. Where I get my ideas, how I match my words with other people's music, which little helpers I use...
I'm unhappy with the line "his Facebook friend's reactions now evoking spaces". Not only is its meaning not exactly clear, but alternative expressions in the mammer of "others filling the (gaps or) spaces the deceased left" would also be off the mark....
I've put down another verse: when you left I felt something you might call a sense of liberation but after weeks and months had passed I made a disturbing observation I wasted time with heavy drinking, brooding, and procrastination sitting here and feeling...
Don't worry, the title of my next project will NOT be "solipsistic creations". This expression sprang to my mind for no particular reason during my lunch break yesterday. Out of a sudden there was that thought "I should write some text containing the...
I've worked on the bridge: one blow one stroke just some minor lapse one blow one stroke make your world collapse And I think I'll repeat the lines I added to the verses once more after the bridge as a kind of lift or pre-chorus. Thus, the complete lyrics...
... was my title, "Daydream" named their song "Alive" It's one of my very early lyrics - I'm amazed that somebody actually dug it out. Here's the original text: I feel - I live floating from the darkness heading for the light a thought appears from nowhere...
I've completed three verses for "cracked". After shifting a few lines to and fro I think they're not bad for the time being. I've altered the rhyming scheme to AABB because the lines somehow seemed too long to work well with an ABAB rhyming scheme: the...
I checked the symptoms that crack addicts may show on Wikipedia: lack of sleep, restlessness, paranoia, losing touch with reality, delusional parasitosis (the belief that you are infested with parasites), hallucinations about insects, skin damage due...
My creativity has recovered :-) I've completed one of my text fragments: Verse the bread was stale, the butter smelly, my stomach would revolt I was worried that yet again my car could strike or bolt the phone was ringing, the coffee cold, time was running...
Somehow I'm unconcentrated at the moment. Somehow I don't feel like working on the stuff I had intended working on. So, what I'm doing is collecting yet more scraps for my 'scrap book' that might make it into full-blown song lyrics somtime - or not. autumn...
This is a very old text of a love song I had written for my wife. Since the German band "Selfastrays" has set it to music (again) and will include it on their demo CD I think I may publish it here: when one night the skies cracked open and the clouds...
I think my ideas from yesterday actually could work out nicely, i.e. scrapping the 'patriot line' and repeating the first verse at the end of the song. "Knight Templar" then would look like this: I'm the Knight Templar fighting for the good cause I'll...
The term 'assault gun' would have been quite wrong, 'assault rifle' would have been the correct one. I used neither. This is the third - and probably last - verse: I've outlined all our actions to further our cause I don't fear their reactions I don't...
I think I'll call the song "Knight Templar". I put down some probable lines for Verse III (no rhymes yet) I've outlined all our actions designed awards and medals I sewed myself a uniform and bought an assault gun ... and took further notes: bombed a...
I hadn't come up with any viable ideas for a couple of days. Since Steve suggested to try writing the song from the assassin's perspective I tried that approach - and new ideas started flowing again. This is what I put down on saturday: Verse I I'm the...
A songwriter colleague suggested a few changes for "butterfly", mainly leaving out unneccesary words like "that" or "somehow". One particular line was in the wrong tense: "not a single moment I would want to miss" had to be changed into ".. that I would...
Here is just the chorus, the full text will be published on my lyrics pages and in my next compilation "Bernd's second hundred song lyrics" - "Butterfly" is my 200st song text: it hurts to look in your trustful eyes I don't want to tell another lie 'cause...
Did you notice the slight change in the title? First it was "post it on the net", then "post it on the internet", now it's "post it on the net" again. Call it 'artistic freedom' if you like. My own freedom this time. The lyrics are a collaboration of...
... then Robert suggested to re-write the song so it would only have verses and neither chorus nor a bridge. He re-wrote what I had planned as bridge(s), and also added two verses: This was his first draft: Post It On The Internet If you’re just starting...
This was the first version as I had put it down during a lunch break: when you’re beginning or you are through when you feel strong or you have caught the flu you should post it post it on the net when you are merry when you feel blue when you’re unfaithful...
I've put down verses or pieces of text in the manner I had outlined before: first part: you were marked out for the big venture to go and try your luck travelling over the sea young, healthy, strong you could be the one who once could support the whole...
A little 'tweak' in verse no. 3: your looks aren't too great this is just your fate so much as for your skin yet not the girl within (instead of ... "yet not to the person within"). And I've added a bridge: there's a buzzing happy life beyond stardom...
sooner or later all things change sooner or later my time will come sooner or later we'll all succumb when our options are rearranged - sooner or later I checked out Rhymezone to find appropriate rhymes for "come" and "change", but in the end my good...
The idea had been in the back of my mind since quite a while. But actually there was only the title, "doomsday morning", at first. Later I found "doomsday morn" better fitted. Today I put down a few lines that might match the subject. With the help of...
Yet again I've constructed a song all in the wrong order, playing all the guitar parts and only afterwards thinking about what could be done with them. Later I added bass and drum tracks, still without the faintest idea as for melody or lyrics. In my...
Now that I've decided what subject to write about I should gather a few ideas or basic concepts. Actually I copied lines of text when I first found an article about the thumb that fell from the sky. I googled "thumb" and "dropped" to find quite a few...
