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...
My wife was in a bad temper this morning. Maybe it was because I had babbled something, lets say , rather unrefined ;-) On the commuter train I came up with the idea writing a song with the title "mean streak". I just put down its chorus: she's got a...
I've actually begun tackling my self-imposed mammoth task, compiling, sifting, and editing all lyrics that I've written so far. There are 337 of those. After having already published three collections that may not seem too effortful to do as I'd 'only'...
I had got it all wrong! The chorus was the verse and vice versa. Alex and I made or rather re-defined the second part of the verse a pre-chorus - less lines to write ;-) Alex also suggested to swap the lines "where the music plays" and "where the party's...
I'm the worm in your apple I'm the sting in your flesh I'm the flaw in your theory I'm the hope that is dashed I'm the leak in your memory I'm the guilt that you feel I'm the wound that keeps hurting I'm the fly in your meal why don't you try to accept...
that is: compiling, correcting, editing, maybe even rewriting a few of the 333 lyrics that I've written so far. Some will be replaced with rewrites that I've written over the time. A few - the most crappy ones - might be replaced altogether, or - in other...
I just told Nici that I'm a rhyme-addict. It's amazing how my 'addiction' often(!) changes the direction of my lyrics. One example is "let's procratinate" that I originally intended as derisive lyrics, making light of procrastinators (I had a particular...
The first complete recording. Far from perfect, mind you. The guitar got too loud, I tried to mask it by means of the equalizer. I adopted the text here and there and added the lift that I had scrapped before. And I decided to use the whole line from...
In my mind a rather daring little project is beginning to take shape. I read historical fiction once about Gilgamesh and discovered a translation of the original epic recently (based on the version of 1200 BC). In his comments the editor compares the...
Before uploading my 2009 lyrics collection to the Internet Archive I decided to proof read the former version. A friend of mine had called attention to a few rather embarrassing mistakes ("live" instead of "life", "presence" instead of "present"...),...
This is a text I've written for KJ. The structure of the song, as I see it, is: Verse - Verse - Chorus - Verse - Verse - Bridge - Chorus fell in love with you at first sight couldn’t get you off my mind you always look unworldly bright sometimes I wish...
... only two hours after my last post I've come up with a viable solution, at least I hope so. I'd come across the English pronunciation of "Zeus" which fortunately rhymes with "youth" - not a perfect rhyme, but a rhyme nonetheless. So, with a little...
First I had put down words and phrases that could describe what a young man might look for or do at a weekend: look for action, rocket, look for thrills or kicks, get me high, hang out, ... get pissed (that made it!). After writing the first verse and...
The story: Zeus fell in love with the Phoenician princess Europa. He approched her in the guise of a beautiful white bull (he normally would disguise himself to escape his wife Hera's jealousy). Europy caressed the bull, and eventually even mounted him....
Four verses, two types of verses, the structure: verse A, verse A, verse B, verse B - that's rather uncommon, I've got to check if this will remain so. Holger mentioned that he's not quite satisfied with the arrangement. I'll also give the rough version...
I've come back to working at "out of control" today. Listening to a slowed down version I tried to match words with the notes. I then checked them with the Midi track at original speed so I could see if they would still be singable. This is what I have...
The original bridge was meant to soften the message a bit, to let a little hope shine through the otherwise quite pessimistic lyrics. I've come up with an alternative bridge that leaves the text its dim and dark outlook: will we be devoured by the darkest...
I was in rhyming mode today. And after finding that I've got stuck with writing for Karsten - the many triplets giving me the creeps, what the fuck can you sing to match triplets except "la la la", well, anyway, I decided to give Martin's cowboy suite...
The "cowboy song" is supposed to become some kind of suite comprising an introductory spoken part and three short songs. I've concentrated on the second part that is sung: on a northbound drive from Texas moving slowly with the herd one with nature, one...
I have posted a few of my songs on the unsigned band web site. Bernd on UBW I also asked for reviews. Astonishingly, they did not come out as bad as I feared in spite of my rather lacking musical skills and crude arrangements. Spartacus: warm voice ,...
Martin suggested writing a song about cowboys. That's a subject as far from my former lyrics as one can possibly get (I mention Jakaroos, i.e. Australian cowboys, in one of my songs, but that has been my only contact with this topic so far). So, how do...
An improvement by Robert: "we run out of words" instead of "our conversation runs dry" - fits better with the tune. Not that it matters any more. Steffen has rejected the text, it's too lowbrow in his opinion (hey, what do YOU think?). Never mind, I like...
a minor change so the verses rhyme: we order a drink and we drink to the past we drink to a future still in doubt instead of: we drink to the future and the night The verse now rhymes with the last line of: the conversation runs dry but our silence still...
Time for a little celebration! It's Easter and this is my 100st (!) song text: brother were have you been spending all the time just one word from you would have removed the grime that had formed layers upon my sense of recognition brother it is time...
I found the missing link, i.e. bridge: don't get my back against the wall I need some space to breathe and roam do understand I'm not your thrall I'm not the man who'd stay at home Yet again I used http://www.rhymezone.com/ to find rhymes for 'wall'....
"18" is another of Karsten's songs. Since the melody varies quite largely, and the last part seems to me to represent the idea best, I've startet working on it back to front. Karsten's working title refers to the time of coming of age, when you're are...
