How to write lyrics?!! (Help)..

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Post by ggonza43 » Sat Jan 01, 2011 7:25 am

I don't care what you say, come suck my *beep*!
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Post by hiro23 » Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:02 am

Okay that was random :D
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Post by robocop656 » Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:49 am

I'm going to write lyrics. (I have no idea what I'm doing)

Verse:
Moons everywhere.
Moons Everywhere.
Baskets of easter eggs.
It's not Easter. X 2

Pre Chorus:

You know it's not Easter
Dance the Latin tango
My dog is named bojangles
BOJANGLES!!! X 2

Chorus:

Your moon is rising
Your moon is crying
Your moon is drying
Drying, Drying, Drying, Drying my eyes
AT NIGHT! X4


Verse 2:

Animals are alive
Your are alive
Touch the sky
Tonight we bleed at midnight
MIDNIGHT X4


Chorus:

Your moon is rising
Your moon is crying
Your moon is drying my eyes
Your moon is visible at night

AT NIGHT! X4


:Explosion sound:


*vanilla ice 90s rap style*

Hello my name is joe
you are what you know
tonight I saw a bunch of breasts
put yo' head on yo' pillow to make it rest
enlighten the world with spaghetti
touch my toes and make me ready
pray to Krishna and listen to kevin moore

*end rap*


Power metal chorus:


Chorus: X8
:
Your moon is rising
Your moon is crying
Your moon is drying my eyes
Your moon is visible at night

AT NIGHT!

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Post by Karlheinz Stockhausen » Sat Jan 01, 2011 12:12 pm

:) Aber doch! Sehr gut my boy! Do you maybe like cloth-pegs? A little advice to you from a musiclyricperson! Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do it!!!Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. I am sure it was a German who said this first. Maybe A. Fitler... :roll: :roll: :roll:

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Post by ggonza43 » Sat Jan 01, 2011 6:19 pm

hiro23 wrote:Okay that was random :D
New Year hiro, New Year :lol:! Too much drinks made me an annoying troll =P
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Post by hiro23 » Sun Jan 02, 2011 3:26 am

ggonza43:no worries

Robocop656:actually in a strange way those lyrics actually work
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Post by ggonza43 » Sun Jan 02, 2011 6:15 pm

An esater song? No way that can be serious :lol:
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Post by robocop656 » Sun Jan 02, 2011 7:34 pm

It looks like I need a computer locking breathalyzer for my computer.

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Post by hiro23 » Sun Jan 02, 2011 9:09 pm

that would actually be very nice to have :D
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Post by ggonza43 » Sun Jan 02, 2011 10:15 pm

robocop656 wrote:It looks like I need a computer locking breathalyzer for my computer.
For your computer for your computer :lol:
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Post by hiro23 » Mon Jan 03, 2011 9:15 am

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Post by Kosmo » Mon Jan 03, 2011 9:34 am

8)

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Post by ggonza43 » Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:46 pm

Anyway, back to titles for a song: Strato totally proved us you actually don't need to think the title before the acutal lyrics; that's how we would explain "No Return" turned into "Event Horizon" and "Heavenly Divine" into "Fairness Justified"
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Post by hiro23 » Mon Jan 03, 2011 9:05 pm

A lot of bands do it that way, sometimes it just makes sense to change the title because maybe the lyrics went a different way then intended.
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Post by ggonza43 » Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:05 pm

True...Although "Heavenly Divine" suited more than what it's now "Fairnes Justified"
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Post by hiro23 » Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:08 am

Obviously the band thought differently.

As I said though it's not uncommon, hell sometimes I've changed titles because I felt that the previous one wasn't that good.
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Post by AGAG » Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:38 am

Songs shouldn't have titles
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Post by hiro23 » Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:21 am

But then you would lose track of them :D
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Post by ggonza43 » Wed Jan 05, 2011 3:30 am

Just name them "track 1", "track 2" and so 8)
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Post by hiro23 » Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:19 am

but then there would be millions of track 1, track 2 type things and how would you keep track of that? plus when you do a new album what would you call the tracks then?
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Post by ggonza43 » Wed Jan 05, 2011 5:52 pm

Like the title of the album: Elysium 1, Elysium 2 and so on :lol:
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Post by hiro23 » Wed Jan 05, 2011 9:54 pm

Not to sound mean however that's just stupid :lol:
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Post by ggonza43 » Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:02 pm

Quote my first comment from this page 8) :D
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Post by hiro23 » Thu Jan 06, 2011 7:26 am

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Post by ggonza43 » Fri Jan 07, 2011 3:32 am

OK, let's go on. I always wondered, as I am not a composer of music just lyrics from time to time: How does people decide weather a lyric is best suited with a fast or slow tempo?
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Post by hiro23 » Fri Jan 07, 2011 6:26 am

Well most of the time, at least from my experience the melody comes first and then the lyrics.

However I have seen exceptions where the lyrics come first and then the melody is written around it, it is all dependent on the composer and their way of doing things.
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Post by AGAG » Sat Jan 08, 2011 2:17 am

hiro23 wrote:Well most of the time, at least from my experience the melody comes first and then the lyrics.

However I have seen exceptions where the lyrics come first and then the melody is written around it, it is all dependent on the composer and their way of doing things.
Oh, I love independence hiro, it's like a cherry on the top of a great sundae :oops: :oops:
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Post by hiro23 » Sat Jan 08, 2011 6:55 am

AGAG wrote:
hiro23 wrote:Well most of the time, at least from my experience the melody comes first and then the lyrics.

However I have seen exceptions where the lyrics come first and then the melody is written around it, it is all dependent on the composer and their way of doing things.
Oh, I love independence hiro, it's like a cherry on the top of a great sundae :oops: :oops:
Am I going to have to hose you down? :lol:
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Post by ggonza43 » Sat Jan 08, 2011 6:53 pm

...And here we go again :D
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Post by hiro23 » Sun Jan 09, 2011 12:22 am

yep, it's like a great Benny Hill episode
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