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[bryn]

"Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses"


theres a really bad suicidal tendencies lyric that goes:
'Most wars should never have been fought,
But this is a war that must be fought'

man that singer suuuuuucccccckkkkkssss!!!!

Thanks for the tips etc... Ok here's a situation that I'm basing a song on, the music is acoustic and doomy, folk/finger picking type thing:

A boy(ghost) is sitting on a fence watching his own funeral, some of the mourners include people who claimed to be his friends, but in actual fact weren't anything close. The fence represents the inbetween of life to death!

[Lester Burnham]

Originally posted by Turnham Green:
Thanks for the tips etc... Ok here's a situation that I'm basing a song on, the music is acoustic and doomy, folk/finger picking type thing:

A boy(ghost) is sitting on a fence watching his own funeral, some of the mourners include people who claimed to be his friends, but in actual fact weren't anything close. The fence represents the inbetween of life to death!

So he's looking back on thr true colours of the people that were involved in his life? Their presence at the funeral is purely for face as they were never truly friends.

[Camie]

I was good at lyrics(with the odd exceptions) a year or so ago until i realised they were all to do with love and stopped writing lyrics. meh.

Originally posted by Camie:
I was good at lyrics(with the odd exceptions) a year or so ago until i realised they were all to do with love and stopped writing lyrics. meh.

But love as a subject has kept many peoples careers going for decades, you should get back to it!

[egyptiandays]

The best way I find, is to have your music written, then take a guitar or whatever and play the verse chords over and over and over and just hum a melody to your chords. Once you have a melody to go with your chords, listen to what your hearing. The combination of chords and melody will provoke thoughts that meet the feeling of the music and then all you have to do is write about what the music is making you feel and once you get the first couple of lines going, use your imagination to ellaborate. This, in my opinion is far better than just scribbling on an empty pad.

[justincutyou]

Look, get totally tanked in a cemetary and wallow in the mud. Then go to town and go to a pub and start to touch up some lasses and see what kind of trouble you get into. Film the whole thing and write about the experience like you're a journalist. There. Now you have some lyrics.

i wrote a song yesterday. i had the tune/meoldy already written, but i couldn't figure out the lyrics or even come up with an idea what the lyrics should be about. so i went to work and the idea came to me that i should write a song about all these people coming and going and how they must perceive the person at the till. so i wrote down the lyrics on the back of till receipts in between serving customers, and that was that.

[Camie]

Originally posted by Turnham Green:
But love as a subject has kept many peoples careers going for decades, you should get back to it!

.......but it gets annoying after a while for myself. I would rather write lyrics about more important things as well as love.

Alkaline Trio write songs about love, but in different contexts.

maybe you should take that approach?

like you could say how love affects how people perceive you or how love affects the way you perceive society.