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...
Over the weekend I've prepared "no future - no past" so I can maybe record the voice tonight, and I've completed "Ganymede": Ganymede on UBW
I found a subject for my "rebel" song. It will be about Spartacus. The slave revolt in the late Roman empire has that timeless quality I was looking for: revolt against the oppressors, sharing among equals, a hero ... The Marxists have appreciated this...
I have recorded "terminal disease". You can find it on my MySpace page MySpace: texter_bernd or on my lyrics pages under "odds and ends" bernd-hamsen.de The open hi-hat has got a bit loud, I will fix it some time soon. The next titles I'm going to record...
I have begun recording "terminal disease", so I am busy playing the guitar and singing at the moment. Also, Alex intends to re-write the song he had sent. Therefore, I've put that little project on hold, too. In other words, I will have to neglect this...
As I have mentioned I note spontaneous ideas in a file which I call my scrap book. This is the latest entry: it' only your dreams that fly it's only your thoughts that cry so that your eyes keep dry while your lips fake a smile
... Actually there have been several new MotorPlanet songs over the past three years - but not with my lyrics. Now, after a wait of nearly three years, I am supposed to write the lyrics for "a new day breaks".
so it doesn't sound like "where the angels go to pee" ;-) I also made the kid a boy: the rush hour's craze takes its toll a victims spouse to console her kid, too young to understand, reaches for his mother's hand and says "I cannot sleep where the angels...
I'm writing something sinister for a change ;-) Maybe you remember the film "Repulsion" by Roman Polanski? Stay tuned...
... without their spouse, I mean. My wife doubts it. I cannot know because I can't dance ;-) Maybe I'll have to rewrite the first verse for "falling victim". I'll await Peter's reaction (maybe he won't even notice...)
... quite a few posts on a little piece of text ... he's leaving traces o'r many places his postings, thoughts and pictures spread over hyperspaces he's leaving traces better, although 'hyperspace' should normally be used in the singular, but I like it...
Following a suggestion by Robert I've made the lyrics present tense (well, past tense in the 3rd verse). He also helped me clean up the meter of the pre-chorus. You find the 'official' version on my lyrics pages (at the moment under "latest additions...
Two lines for the bridge: are there men who are not good enough? does it count when you're in love? Aren't there any viable rhymes for "love"? (No, that's not another line, that's a question). The word that is most often needed and used in songs comes...
nothing much to life but living nothing much to gifts but giving nothing much to love but loving nothing much to me - but hey who cares A rough sketch for a chorus for a song that might be called "nothing much to life".
To spare me the labour of editing the whole lot again (actually it would be a simple matter of copy-and-paste, I admit), here's a link: Post on Songwriter101 ;-)
Ray had already written and recorded a folk tune, now I've recorded a quite different tune myself. You'll find it if you look for it ;-)
Actually I have no news. Well, nothing much, except: I'll write this from a femal perspective. Men are much 'better' crooks than women, so it should be easier to find fitting stories or situations ;-)
sense of regognition ... were my 100st lyrics, and this is what became of them
Spartacus.mp3
I think I've got the chorus: the last of nature's mysteries life's a terminal disease there's just one chance that you must seize life's a terminal disease As for the structure I imagine: verse bridge chorus verse bridge chorus [solo] bridge chorus chorus...
... will be the title of my next little project. It won't deal with HIV or cancer, though. In spite of the title I intend the text to be quite positive and life affirming. In the line of "lost in space" or "peaceful times".
I will stop using overblog yet will keep posting news directly on my own web site (until now I used overblog RSS feeds to add news to my site). If you want to check out what I am up to just visit me on http://bernd-harmsen.de See you there! Bernd
