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 don't have verses yet. The chorus will have four lines: xxx life's a terminal disease YYY life's a terminal disease (were XXX or YYY, respectively, will be any two of the lines of text which I have put down below. At the end of the song I imagine the...
Originally, I intended to give the song a more positive direction by adding a text for the bridge which would basically tell that not all has been lost since our children turned out alright. Also, I experimented with lines like "though our intentions...
A remark of a young man inspired me to this song or poem. He remarks on his MySpace page that towards tiny creatures he likes to play God. I wrote the text down this morning, it took about 20 minutes: God of the ants I'm the God of tiny creatures I decide...
When Holger of the Motorplanet blues-rock band recently sent new compositions so I could create lyrics for them there were actually three of them. Two I have already finished. The third song is an up-tempo Rock song with three verses, and neither chorus...
I'm robbing - or plagiarizing - myself. The other day I had published "the answer", a song from 2002 that I up to then found quite too embarrassing to publish, yet now decided is not that bad at all. Well, it 'made it' only to the end of my list which...
"That girl got balls" is my video that is most often viewed - only four hundred odd times, mind you, but that's often for the likes of me ;-) And it actually got a few "likes". My own favourite would have been "Come real", but then, I'm biased anyway...
... but many different ways. Here's Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) on that subject:
Five new MotorPlanet songs are in the pipeline. I've already heard them on a private party although they still lacked a proper text - that is supposed to be written by me. You can watch me working on them right here
Another verse in the manner of the first two, yet two 'stories' squeezed into a single verse: a new motorbike that ran smooth and fast smashed its driver on a concrete wall some old nasty crook enjoys his old age made millions by means that appall
I'm still not THAT sure about the title, but I have got a bridge that I like: SHE: maybe I should stop bitching 'round when I want love HE: why can't I be more self-assured where I want love BOTH: maybe it's true I just don't try enough maybe it's true...
The year draws to a close while I keep adding to the pile. Current status is 345 lyrics plus yet another rewrite. Last one: "Beco", written for Hot Mama and matching their music. "In the morning I'll have had you" is a title I'm pondering at the moment...
I need not write a new text after all. "Where shall we end up" nearly fits perfectly. I only have to throw out two parts and edit a few lines. In my mind it flows beautifully :-)
Would a "winning team" be better than "... must be retained". I guess so! The chorus for "what we're having" might go: what we're having is so precious what we're having a lifetime's dream what we're having is pure magic what we're having a winning team...
I posted my little lyrics collection on the Internet Archive: song cycle for a funeral
I think I've brought order into my lyrics. The first two verses now focus on 'my' lust, namely on oral sex, the second part focuses on my submission to 'her' lust. That should make sense - in a sense ;-)
... the other "astray", I mean - the one I'm actually going to sing these days ;-)
I'll rename my lyrics "cry out, shout out" "cry out, scream out". "shout out" also or even primarily(?) stands for "call out" or "proclaim". I obviously want the negative implication. "scream out" is clearer.
three steps up five steps down look up the sky crawl 'cross the ground let your soul fly while you drown Not excactly cheering, I guess... But a start for new lyrics, anyway.
While Craig is - still - working on "Rachel" and also has picked "cut and run" to set to music, I found a new partner. My new partner is female, so I'm trying to think and feel more female to come up with fitting words ;-)
"to use to do sth." is only used in the past tense, hence the first lines now read: you always make me look the fool ...
so check out my 'seasonal' links at http://bernd-harmsen.de Two summerly songs and videos by KOMIR and a very old version of "summer night" by yours truly ;-)
I replaced that line mentioning wood worms with "deathwatch beetles keep on knocking". What a wonderful, lyrical name, "deathwatch beetle". I discovered it in an online thesaurus. I had to use it, it fits the mood so well ;-)
I've written a new chorus: just bad luck or my stupidity is it fate or my destiny moving on to the next calamity just bad luck or my stupidity Now I still need a new third verse and maybe a bridge. I think I'll call the song, i.e. the lyrics, "bad lu...
I changed the first line of the second verse from "Latin lover, smart seducer" to "smart seducer, Latin lover" to obtain a consistent rhyming pattern - X A X A - for all verses.
The "official" version is on my lyrics server in the section for the latest updates (from where it will be moved away eventually): Bernd's lyrics: latest additions I've chosen this version of the chorus: the sound of nations the world's creations the...
