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...
Craig made a suggestion to improve the chorus. Gary applied 'tweaks' to the second verse: Verse 2: you pay the wage, you're in the driver's seat I’m the resource that you deplete ['resource' is the correct term here] yet that’s restricted to the working...
I've not worked on the coutry jargon yet - I'll probably need some assistence here, but I've extended the chorus and written an additional verse and pre-chorus. I also rearranged the verses to obtain a sensible sequence: I won't give in VERSE my freedom...
Normally, you'd expect a song to have verses and a chorus that is repeated about three times, and maybe also a bridge. But modern rock songs often don't fit in this pattern, "I believe" certainly doesn't. I couldn't even decide which part might serve...
Musical meter and the rhythm of the lyrics - their prosody - must match to make a song. Stresses are more important than the numbers of syllables. An example: if my dreams came true ... out of the blue Both lines (can) match the same meter or tune. The...
While watching a beautiful young swimmer at the public pool this morning I remembered that I used to envy a classmate in my school days. He was beautiful, he was a great athlete, he was everybody's darling - he seemed to have everything that I lacked....
I don't remember how often I've edited and re-edited a particular line in "close your eyes". The song is about four years old, if I remember correctly. Only recently I decided to give it another go and try to record it yet again, maybe simplify the guitar...
My tries to salvage the ideas I had collected so far have failed. This is what I had compiled offline, i.e. without access to a computer: take on the virtual journey to places yet unknown leave your cosy comfort zone to find a world of music and grow...
Actuall this is "no war hero - III" since anti war song was the first post in this series. I shifted a few lines of the bridge to improve its flow: which were the noble goals again, the altruistic motives, and heroic deeds that were in store that had...
Actually there's a choice of Ron's version: Cast away this outer shell keep my desire within Replace my own persona with what you see in him ... and my own lunch time inspiration: I just hang around the bar and drown my misery in beer I admire you from...
Three verses plus a chorus plus a bridge should make complete song lyrics, right? Here's the verses that I've written: Verse 1: so your guy's walked out on you you feel unloved and deserted nothing much that you can do you are lost and disconcerted [I...
When I woke up this morning the lyrics were there in my mind - maybe the leftovers of an unpleasant dream? There's just the chorus at the moment, but it's quite obvious what the verses will have to tell: serves you right to feel what you made me feel...
It's not the first song lyrics that I've come up with when I was swimming. There's nothing much to do when swimming, you just move your arms and legs a little, and you breathe in and out, in and out... Very relaxing, indeed! I let my mind wander and sometimes...
I'm a rhyme addict! Therefore, it happens quite often that my lyrics go in a completely different direction from what I originally intended. It happened with "Hollywood happy end", now it happened again with today's lunch time lyrics, "let's procratinate"....
I've read that much patriotic crap on certain songwriter forums that I think the time has come for me to write some 'anti war song'. I'm going to do it my way, obviously ;-) It's title might become "no war hero". I'm thinking along the lines that the...
Okay, okay - that was not how Craig envisioned the song. I had thought as much. I reshaped my 2nd version of "Hold on" slightly by shifting the second 'pre-chorus' to its appropriate place. And I will write yet another version with verses, prechoruses,...
Craig is interested in setting my lyrics (see: "two quickies") lyrics to music. Yet he suggested to insert an additional line in the chorus, and to add two verses instead of simply repeating the two verses from the beginning. To obtain a good flow I proposed...
Craig is working on another version for "Hold on", the original version originating from MotorPlanet. He requires two additional parts. But he also interprets the different song parts quite differently from me, so maybe my suggestions may not meet his...
I felt like rhyming today ;-) Therefore, I dug out an older idea from my 'scrap book' - see also: yet more scraps - and wrote a few matching verses plus a bridge. I was done in a matter of minutes. I just shifted a few lines a bit at the end to improve...
still missing: the bridge. The bridge occurs only once in a song giving it more variety. Lyrically it should add a new aspect or maybe even provide a surprising twist. I also try to give it a unique rhyming pattern as well. For "no respect" I decided...
Craig of the Fabrockators has finished working on the music and recorded the song. To make the lyrics match he swapped parts and altered a few lines, so now there is yet another version. It's 'my' first country song, by the way - well, it's Craig's, obviously,...
I've begun collecting words and phrases and even quite a few rhymes that may or may not match the music I'm having in my mind. Essentially it's just brainstorming at the moment. There are explicit expressions that I will NOT use. But I post them here...
Often, though not always, I use dummy text as a template for lyrics I'm supposed to write. It's my method when writing lyrics to match existing tunes. This time there is not excactly a tune, but rather a chord progression. Nonetheless, the method remains...
No, it's not Albanian at all, it's English. But my latest lyrics are written to match a tune that is sung in Albanian. I didn't understand a single word! Neither do I have the faintest idea what the song may be about: Boy and girl stuff, probably, but...
There was the riff and sound track that I had named "8B", so obviously somewhere there has been a track "8A" as well. Today I've completed its guitar parts, next bass and drums will follow, sometime later I'll add the vocals. Somehow this weird order...
A look at the outline of the Gilgamesh epos alone suggests that writing folk lyrics on this subject might not be easy. Aside from the number of plots and subplots the characters, too, aren't easy to describe. For example, the demon Humbaba who Gilgamesh...
