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...
if all was clear you'd need not ask me how or why if all was clear you could forgive me a white lie why can't you see that you're the one who I've fallen for give us a chance and try to trust me a little more I don't know how to convince you that I have...
My first sketches - or rather full blown verses - for 'Flamenco-type' song lyrics: HE I admire the ground you're walking on when you flash a smile you turn me on I'm melting away to find you've gone SHE are you a real man do you have the grit do you know...
... or a secular requiem. I'm sort of planning my own funeral ;-) Well, it's just a mind game, and, as for me, it can keep on being just a mind game for quite a few years to come. I suggested the song cycle on a discussion board, stating that I had already...
Actually, I think the lyrics are done. Yet maybe I'll add a bridge. That would have to be a posthumous bridge ;-) the big boys all jumped o'er the ditch bordering the meadow I was young, I was small, I just tried to follow I took a run, I took a breath,...
After outlining the basic structure and content of my song lyrics I gather material. The first verse is to deal with traces the Romans left in today's world. I therefore scanned the internet for ideas: temples, theaters, amphitheaters, aqueducts, roads,...
Roy wrote: "... It was only when others and yourself explained just what it meant, that I got it. ... but for me a small extra line would to flower", so this is how the extended chorus reads:make it all clear. So my suggestion is just that, a suggestion....
once full of hope you were the highschool star breaking teenage hearts now you can’t cope once the big boss now wretched and pitiful, old, and laughable you are no loss I decided that the former lines - when no-one understands when all reason makes no...
I put the lyrics down in about half an hour so there actually would be nothing much to say about their 'progress'. Yet I improved - I think it's improving - a line in the first verse: I can feel your presence I know that you've been hanging around I rejoice...
On last Wednesday I had two teeth pulled out. Which actually meant that I lost four(!) teeth because they were the pillars of a dental bridge. Some kind of inspiration... they have pulled out all your teeth and cut off both your feet now you're wriggling...
My first version of the chorus went: no, he is no war hero just one more casualty his accomplishments were zero some sad fatality I didn't like the similarity of "casualty" and "fatality", though, and it was rather short, anyway. The extended version...
The idea came up while I was swimming my 1,000 meters in the indoor pool. Actually, there was just this single line "don't call me by my name". And I remembered the German fairy tale called "Rumpelstilzchen". Anyway, I decided to write something around...
(the other) Bernd has taken a liking to the lyrics that I called "a place to live". As he doesn't seem to care much for its chorus he changed the title to "nobody cares". There was too much pathos in the chorus, I guess: trying to catch a healthy dream...
I think I'd mentioned some time before that I would write a 'philosophical' text about the human condition. It looks like it will come out not too philosophical but rather typical - for me ;-) she was 22 consumed by lung cancer she'd never smoked a single...
I love the title! Don't ask how I came up with this one... I wavered for a while if it should be "vigorously" or "furiously", deciding on the latter. I had already written about a nymphomaniac - "I love you all", I'm writing about infidel men all the...
"Attracted to you" COULD be the title of my 2nd duet. This is the chorus - as of now - that I 've written: HE it's true, I feel attracted to you but then I feel rejected by you SHE it's true, I feel attracted to you but then I feel neglected by you BOTH...
I wrote another verse and a bridge: Verse: when did you last | see things with sober eyes when was your life less of a mess when did you last | smile or laugh aloud and feel true happiness - I'm not THAT happy with the "when - when - when" beginnings...
The third verse shall deal with one's offspring. This verse will stand for the future after the verses that dealt with the past (Romans) and the present (traces on the internet). At the moment I am putting down lines, phrases, and words that might fit...
I've altered the first verse slighly. It now reads "they would stand by you all the same" instead of "I would stand by you all the same". This harmonizes better with the third verse that goes: you're smile simply sets them all ablaze for you they'd take...
My syllable count was not quite correct. The fourth line of the verses may have nine or even ten syllables like the sixth. I simply overlooked that sounds like "ayay" - i.e. duplicated vowels - count twice. As for the content I let myself be inspired...
Haven't I been busy these days! Since I was contacted by party-/dancefloor producers I wrote a couple of party song lyrics so as to have something to offer and work on once we get going. Today I published six song lyrics on my home page: - keep moving...
I've just listened to the music yet again to check my lyrics against the (still only imagined) tune. In the chorus I need the stress on the first syllable so "Darlene" didn't work. Instead, I needed any two-syllable female name with the stress on the...
It's called: "I don't need her love" (MotorPlanet). I don't actually care much for the title, yet the songs has already been performed - without proper lyrics! - under this title, and the lines "I don't need her; I don't love her" stand out , so I had...
- "seize the day". That's my life's credo. And it shines through, in one way or the other, in quite a few song lyrics I've written. At the moment I am compiling a song or lyrics collection that will be dedicated to this subject. I also intend to add comments...
... shall be the next project with Markus. I'll keep his title. The song is to be about world music or a world of music, respectively (a pun that I hope to employ in the lyrics). Markus even provided the dummy text he is singing in the demo thus sparing...
No, not really... Three backing tracks are in the making. 2014-05 (composition #5 this year) I completed yesterday, including a solo. It's the first time I play slide guitar - I had bought a slide (also called bottleneck) the other day - and open G tuning...
