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...
The FIRST VERSE I wrote - and the first (and last) verse it also will be - goes: no excitement, neither fun that was life to her nothing to look forward to inside something stirred It's rhyming scheme is X A X A instead of A B A B as in my dummy lyrics....
Four new lyrics on my lyrics pages: * seize your life - the lyrics I mentioned yesterday * you'd better watch out - matching a MotorPlanet tune * no worth - after Holger (MotorPlanet) rejected "do it right" because it was too sexist (?! We're talking...
While working on the bass and drum tracks for "8A" I discovered that I will need an additional verse. The original version of "spill blood" had only three verses whereas "8A" requires four. This is what I wrote: girl you hurt me and you drive me bonkers...
I've posted seven new lyrics on my home page. Three are 'free-style' lyrics, texts with no music to them: floating leave me in the cold gonna have a ball Three I wrote to match other guy's music: somebody gonna have to make it through the winter much...
Some people hits it lucky. I'm one of those :-) I had prepared two backing tracks that still lacked a vocal line as well as lyrics. A few moments ago I completed the lyrics for one of the tracks. This is the chorus: I still can't believe my luck that...
I consulted rhyming dictionaries and a book on English idioms, wrote and re-wrote lines that were supposed to form the bridge. In the end I added even more lines splitting them up into three verses, now using the two-liners that I originally envisioned...
Lunchtime lyrics: I store my data on the cloud somewhere my private data is all out - there I feel lost, I don't know a thing I think I'm lost in the cloud the CIA read all my posts somehow I'm losing track of my path somehow I feel lost, I don't know...
... awaiting Holger's approval. I wrote another verse that I'll use as first verse: what I think 'bout our last time? I'll tell you quite frankly it wasn't my night that night you'd come too fast again not for the first time you left me unsatisfied And...
I was contacted by producers who specialize in dance and party music. Although I've always found it exceptionally difficult to write easygoing stuff I've put down four party lyrics since yesterday (which actually means within two or three hours). The...
... of hypocrisy. My song "Sabrina" - its YouTube version - was deleted from two songwriting forums for its indecency. Both forums are located in and frequented by people from the so called "Bible Belt". That's where people favor the death penalty, claim...
... yet only two more lyrics 'officially' published so far. For a singer-songwriter(!) I wrote three lyrics, "much too long", "ride into the sun", and "will have to make it through the winter". A fourth text we wrote together "I'm so lonely" - he wrote...
I rewrote the lot and it differs a lot, maybe I can use parts of the planned nonsense-lyrics in some other context. You can find the complete lyrics on my home page. "Diogenes" begins: I live in a barrel prefer the simple life your corrupt society's no...
I have two MotorPlanet songs to set to words, that means replacing some dummy text with something 'real'. Nici uses phrases from older songs as provisional lyrics which now serve as templates for . I got the first title done - at least I hope so. I call...
First version of what will become the chorus, put down as it sprung to my mind: I'm the next in the row, I'm next in line they won't keep me waiting long, they're all so kind I'll be served in a minute, I will be fine don't you worry little Baby, I'm...
My lyrics "wait and see" aren't understood. After writing "let's procratinate", giving the term a positive meaning (take your time), I wrote "wait and see", giving that phrase a negative touch. Which doesn't seem to work. I think, I'll change the lines...
... that's the line that sprang to my mind when I read a Facebook post by some Denalyn about his brother who is being bullied because of his attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Asperger syndrom (a kind of autism). That's all there is at...
I wrote "I want to live between your thighs" yesterday during my lunch break (I won't post it right here, but you can find it if you look for it). Today I came up with "listen to the music" (boring title, I know). I had it completely in my mind on my...
I had two verses and a bridge. When I read the bridge I discovered that the meter was very much like that of the verses although there were more syllables. I simply had sort of cut the lines in halves so I hadn't noticed. Somewhere in between I had altered...
I put down some lines of text the other day with the intention of writing some nonsense song, a funny and weird song that would be open for different interpretations - or none at all. The memory of "I am the walrus" popped up somewhere in the back of...
I'll make the laconic verse - "a cleaner wipes the kitchen clean..." - the last one, serving as an outro, and insert an additional verse: years of anger under lids burst in a killing spree staying together for the kids who are the casualties And, since...
Yet another rewrite. I wrote "Motorplanet" more than ten years ago, if I remember correctly, when Holger and I began our collaboration. My own version was - due to my limited musical skills - say, rather unconvincing. Holger wrote music, and I adapted...
It's a rather short one, yet it seems to say all there is to say: doin' my Friday shopping I think I've got all I need today I'll do the cooking I've got a few mouths to feed then comes the chorus: I'm standing in the row, I'm next in line ... The outstanding...
The bridge: I had my fun, oh, that is true now I ask myself if it was worth it I knew I would be losing you now I ask myself if it was worth it I think of what we had and could have yet again Babe, I feel so desperate trying to explain after which the...
I just published my third comprehensive lyrics collection. It contains 73 new lyrics, 4 re-writes or alternative versions, and 3 collaboratively written lyrics (with no creative commons license). Two lyrics have not yet been published anywhere else ("a...
I rewrote the first verse: she was 22 consumed by lung cancer she'd never smoked a cigarette she saw all her friends to say her Good-Byes she said we must not be upset Should run a little smoother. And I never cared for the former last line - "said there...
