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 discarded: I'm no saint, but I'm a man ... There's no gaming reference in that one, so instead I wrote: I'm not sure which game you play but I love you anyway I'll buy you flowers now and then, though you don't honour what I do
another verse: Good morning, love I bring the morning tea and eggs for you and me some jam, some toasted bread let's break the fast in bed Good morning, love And a few sketches and notes: let's greet the morning sun rhymes: begun, fun, bun, one I've put...
m3u (streaming file for Windows Media Player) mp3 (if the other won't work for you) Wrong tempo, wrong pitch, but its tune, anyway...
Both lyrics are on my constantly changing web page: http://bernd-harmsen.de/new.htm They're a bit similar somehow, but different enough to make two different rock(?) songs.
An advantage of posting on English or American boards is that there is a good chance of people correcting your errors. "Across" cannot stand alone, so I have changed the line "she sat on the bench across" to "she sat across me on the tube". Fortunately,...
I've put all the lyrics I've written since 2009 in a new collection. There are 61 lyrics alltogether. But since 3 overlap with the former collection 'Bernd's first hundred lyrics' that makes 'only' 58 new ones: Bernd's Lyrics 2009/2010
I've just got a chorus at the moment: fuck being cool don't piss me off I'm not a fool - so fuck being cool
it's on SoundClick Only the solo guitar was recorded after replacing the ASIO driver, thus reducing the soundcard's latency. At least when playing very simple stuff I seem to be in time now - I didn't have to edit these parts at all this time.
The third verse: will a look behind the curtain reveal a party slut in heat? I have never been that certain that I will find out your deceit I used RhymeZone.com, and found "deceit".
Songwriting is not about poetry but about writing words for songs. Sooner or later lyrics should be sung to make them "real" lyrics. Today I've sung "diggin' deep". I've enjoyed it, and I hope, so do you: "diggin' deep" on SoundClick
Thanks to a hint from Alex I could reduce the latency of my soundcard from more than 300 milliseconds to just 14. The ASIO driver he recommended is free: ASIO4ALL driver. Maybe I'm not as inapt as I thought after all? The next recording sessions will...
A minor change in verse III: ... I think I'll hang up before I go nuts And a bridge: don't ask where I am headed to or where I am staying now I've got to find myself somehow don't know if/when I'll come back to you I'm still undecided if it should read...
Just kidding. Here is the path or my private story that eventually lead to my sontext for "Siddhartha" or rather "listen to the river (Siddhartha)": Gilgamesh? Siddhartha Siddhartha II Siddhartha III listen to the river (Siddhartha) Siddhartha - fini...
Alex wanted the chorus to rhyme on "same" in the last line, so here's an alternative chorus: light and dark are just the two sides of the same light and dark it's the nature and kind of the game
A little more tweaking in the verses: ... love, fun and joy for each one forever will abound life is a feast for celebrating the mystery of humanity and in the second verse: you say you've learned to ignore things that the moaners say ...
I've posted my final version of "air to breathe" on my lyrics pages (latest additions; note that the page will move eventually). I'm going to set it to music shortly.
Nothing much to say about this one - I wrote it on a train while I was on a business trip, no little helpers - like rhyming dictionaries, that I normally would use - involved: I cannot leave it at that on my lyrics pages
... just seconds later ... Verse 2 when we make up you can be a real dish you'd do anything I wish no you ain't a cold fish and I don't wanna leave ain't gonna leave I don't wanna leave at all Done! Now I just have to record it ;-)
it's on SoundClick
The title "size matters" has resided in my mind since quite some time. All I know by now is what it will NOT deal with ;-)
... will be the title of my next lyrics. I wrote them during my vacation. I may want to rewrite the bridge. Will post the current version tomorrow. Stay tuned ;-)
The new title "looking down at you" comes closer to a hook because its's the outstanding line in the chorus. Although the 'pun' "looking down at you" - "looking down on you" maybe goes a bit under...
I intend to write a song about Europa (and also Europe), the princess who Zeus abducted. No idea if or how this might work out. At the moment I'm gathering material (Wikipedia).
... can be downloaded from the Internet Archive Actually the first two or three are included in my former collection Bernd's first hundred lyrics (corrected version)
Gary suggested exchanging the two parts of the chorus so the hook stands out more, so now it reads: I am feeling churned up I’m feeling turned on I waver between lust and rage I am feeling churned up I’m feeling turned on I feel like a tiger in a cage...
