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...
Two already recorded backing tracks are awaiting their lyrics and vocals. Listing to the slow bluesy track I came up with these lines: I stumbled through the darkness someone called my name I tried to gather memories but they all seemed the same Well,...
"top secret" is and will not be the title of the song, it's just my - ironic - working title that I chose because the musician I'm writing for would like to keep the lid on this project. With regard to the lyrics he won't succeed as you could tell from...
During yesterday's lunch break I wrote a verse as well as a chorus, but I'm happy with neither. I don't like the chorus because I've already written a song called "who I am" that I actually find quite good myself. A new song titled "who am I" would look...
Craig took an interest in "I won't give in" but he needs it longer, and he wants to give it a 'country flavour'. This is what Craig writes: ... Change some of the words to make it cater more to a country audience Make the chorus twice as long Write a...
I don't know where Google got its estimated 10,8 million hits for the phrase "make no prisoners" - which would be the same expression as in German - versus 1,08 million hits for "take no prisoners" (today the hit counts are VERY different, yet "make"...
Yet again, I have a backing track completed without the slightest idea as for the tune - I mean the vocal line - and the lyrics. The music doesn't sound aggressive, it's rather a modest steady rock sound, I'd say. Nonetheless, the words I seem to come...
I changed the line "come rain and bad weather" to "come hell or bad weather" so it's closer to "come hell or high water". Then I wrote two verses: it's so hard to keep up the pretence that everything is fine for weeks on end I've left home for work at...
I told you about my scrap book that's actually a text file on the computer. It's where I put down my ideas that eventually may or may not become the spark for new song lyrics. After pillaging the scrap book for a while it's time to add new 'scraps' or...
I wrote another verse: it's not the life I strived for dreamed of in my pursuit of happiness I have the foot-in-mouth disease stumbling over my own awkwardness ... and a bridge as well: if I tried to hang myself I am sure the rope would tear I have learned...
Following more hints and suggestions from forums I've rewritten verse 2 yet again: you pay the wage, you call the tune I’m a resource that you consume while that holds true for working hours at quitting time you lose your power I also intend to scrap...
Well, I wrote about hooks and choruses etcetera because that would be the common approach to tackle things. Not so here! But that doesn't mean that much. Some of the best of all-time songs don't care about the standard structure at all. "Satisfaction"...
Will be the next MotorPlanet song I'm writing the lyrics for. Holger and I agreed on a 'cheer up'-song: a girl finds herself down and out (I'm going to avoid this very expression because it already has been used once too often) after an 'easy life'. The...
While yet again listening to the music again and again I edited, re-edited and changed lines of text until they seemed to fit. Here's the result: take on the virtual journey to places yet unknown a keyboard and your earphones to bring a world of music...
Someone pointed out that I've written and published quite a few rather dark song lyrics recently. He described "black waters" as actually very depressing. He's right! There is no hint of hope or light in "black waters". I even replaced the line "I'm worried...
I think I'll soon publish my third 'big' lyrics compilation. Publishing them in an ordered manner on a server that has an accepted and reliable publishing policy helps proving my copyright. After "Bernd's first hundred lyrics" and "Bernd's second hundred...
It took less than half an hour to sketch - or maybe even complete - the first verse. Possibly just thinking about the Romans has triggered my creativity? This could be the first verse: we speak their law, we use their words although their buildings crumble...
8B was my working title. "8" because of the number of the effect I use for the guitar on my Digitech effect processor that is supposed to match AC/DC's "Hells Bells". "B" because it's the second riff I have recorded with that particular sound recently....
The number of syllables does not always match the notes exactly. Which options are there to handles this? If there is one syllable too many you may replace a quarter note with two eighths or add an upbeat note at the beginning, if there is one syllable...
The headline is a mere teaser! Sorry for this ;-) As you may know, or may not know, I don't write exclusively for anybody, not even for myself. There are three exceptions at the moment. These are co-writes with other authors. Two song lyrics were written...
Found this in my 'scrap book'. Think I'm gonna think about it: I had this dream 'bout flying I'd never thought that I could hit the floor when you think you know all there is you'll find that there may well be more 'twas not the place I fancied 'twas...
Life goes on, so does creativity. I'm nearly done with putting together my most comprehensive lyrics collection to date while the first new "lunch-time lyric" came to my mind. It was a quick one, so there's nothing much to tell about the writing process....
It looks like I may have to write about Medusa. My partner actually seems to have already written a verse and some additional lines for the prechorus. Since I know next to nothing about the Medusa myth - I just remember the images of a head with snakes...
(Corny title, I know, I hope I'll come up with something more exciting). I published the chorus under about losing one's teeth Here are the verses and the bridge: VERSE you walked through empty, golden, reverberating halls deafened by the noise of silver...
I wasn't happy with the slightly different structures of the verses. Not that there had been true rhymes in any. Verse two reads: one day you packed your things to leave Pa and Mum you hit the road to find your path towards the sun no-one barring you...
The idea to the subject has been with me since quite a while, yet somehow I never found a convincing clue. The song is supposed to deal with our endeavor to achieve something in our life that outlasts our personal existence. Yesterday I had an inspiration....
