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...
During our vacation on Corsica we witnessed an accident. It happend right beside us. There was a bang and some crunching noise. When I turned my head I saw that the side of a passing car was heavily dented. The car slowly drove to the shoulder of the...
I believe that "Ganymede" is one of my best pieces, together with "Spartacus". It has recently crawled up the SoundClick Acoustic Folk charts to position 38. And it's got a kind review into the bargain: Listened to Ganymede - thought it was an intriguing...
I had to delete three words to be able to sing it. This is its complete text (the recording is on SoundClick as usual): I need to spill blood rub your face in the mud won't give a shit 'bout your pleading dance with glee while your bleeding what do you...
I've noted a few lines for the verses: verse 1: take on the virtual journey to places yet unknown to find a world of music Well, what now? that steadily has grown (one syllable too few) and leave your comfort zone (to be inserted as line 3, one syllable...
I put down a few lines that should make clear WHY I want to shed my skin (why I want her so much): time froze, I was spellbound I couldn't keep my eyes from you my heart raced, my mind tumbled what I saw could not be true pure beauty, pure grace huge...
This is going to be another example of setting music to text - I know there is the expression "to set (text) to music", but what do you say when you work the other way 'round? Anyway, Markus had sent two songs using dummy text for the vocals, the first...
After listening to Ludmila's recording of "ultramarine" a couple more times I found that it actually sounds very French. It wouldn't sound half as good with English lyrics. There is music that sounds better with French words than with English, like Chansons,...
Writing about "giants who fall" has been on my mind for quite a while. Former entries from my scrap book: and the pagans simply waited for the day that the giants should fall they used to stand so tall hiding behind their 6 feet wall but the people are...
Yesterday, on my way home from work, I went past a pretty young girl. When she turned to look for a friend I caught the bad smell of cold smoke. That was when I came up with these lines: who would eat from an ashtray or drink out of the loo so here's...
Isn't that amazing: I've written about 120 lyrics that have not been set to music yet - or that were written to match someone else's music but have never been published - yet none will fit the chord progression I recorded recently. Most of my lyrics seem...
how far had we got? I believe step four comes next: * writing the chorus I shifted lines to and fro, listening to the tune again and again while thinking my lines sort of into the tune to see if and how they might fit in, until I contented myself with...
I wrote this during a lunch break. The lyrics were supposed to match Ralf's tune. When I was done I discovered that Ralf had altered his composition in the meantime so my lyrics would not fit at all. Normally, when someone asks me to write a matching...
... for everyone. Wasn't that what Andy Warhol expected or demanded? Well, my "terminal disease" headed the "classic rock" charts of the unsigned band web (UBW) for ten months last year. Then the situation was back to normal and it vanished from the charts...
A fresh and cheeky song by Alex Geibel with my lyrics written to match his tune: Pull the Strings (on SoundClick) Chorus: I'm gonna spread my wings I'm gonna live my dream one day you'll see me pull the strings I will live like the kings my life will...
When I'm bored I write lyrics. "tall" is basically fun stuff. Its verses: I have grown three meters tall it looks like I'm still growing to get through doors I have to crawl in rooms I must keep bowing you can imagine that I'm strong and must be very...
I had forgotten the intro! You know, I had noted the times, when the verses, choruses, or bridge begin, to listen into the parts repeatedly while I was writing and editing lines of text until they matched the tune. While I listened to the chorus about...
I already knew what I wanted to tell in the verses. Today I put the first verse down, referring to Rhymezone for rhymes to "cute" and "her": she was pretty, she was cute I was smitten, without dispute I tried to get it off with her I didn't know what...
VERSE 1: your life was a drag filled with chores and duties just because you were the kid in a world of adult rule you were supposed to function and obey they suppressed your weak attempts to lead your own life ... VERSE 2: one day you packed your things...
After the nonsense template come words and lines of text that eventually could make the lyrics. Using the template that I mentioned last I miss the church, I can't afford it, all alone you kill the stars, we can surround them, come and go I can afford...
If I had got him right, Marian thought about a song in the manner of "paradise by the dashboard light" when he suggested writing a duet. That's a song by Jim Steinmann - to honor the WRITER where most people think only of the artist when commenting on...
Although I'm reading and writing English all the time I hardly ever SPEAK English so my pronunciation - or rather the pronunciation I have in mind - can be quite wrong. Thus, although I'm quite good with regard to rhyme, meter and intonation, i.e. the...
CHORUS: girl, I never reached you you just used to turn me down girl, you never let me help when you were about to drown A bit corny, I know. I liked my former line with 'my helping hand', but I couldn't find any viable rhyme that would fit. The repeated...
I've begun to work on a third song for Flamur. The mp3 file is called E_di_Demo - whatever that's supposed to mean. It's sung in Albanian. First step: identify the structure It is: intro - verse - lift - chorus - choral part - verse - lift - chorus- choral...
I don't remember if I had posted the lyrics to "Spartacus" here. I've just recorded the song again for my folk collection on YouTube. In the light of this its lyrics might be of interest: we broke through your lines and taught your legions fear when you...
Hey Joy, come and join me let's toy around and have some fun it's such a fine day today so let's get crazy in the sun Joy, when you smile at me I feel so good Joy, when we're making love I get so high Joy, when we're talking I feel understood Joy, when...
