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When I had nothing to say... I said nothing.
What did you do? What did you see? Smells? Tastes? Take your audience there with you. Well that is typical country writing!! No hidden meanings - just a story!.
Good luck!
Americanarama
Nashvillains (or if you support the 2nd best team in the West Midlands, Aston Nashvilla)
If you were solo you could have Alone Star State
Oh hang on sorry wrong thread
1. I write stuff that tries to communicate an idea or concept, and very often I'll already have melodies and rhythms in mind. I'll sing along to the demos and it'll just sort of come out.
2. Pillage lines, sentences, words, and phrases, from various places and fit them to a structure. Sources are the idiotic things people say on Facebook, Youtube comments, and other such places. I also read a fair amount of occult literature and pull phrases from them too.
For instance I found some stuff in the online Aleister Crowley library, written by a guy writing about Freemasonry. I turned it into this:
to seek and knock at the door of a world within
we are but ordinary men of the world
compelled to turn back upon ourselves
light charts the way
beyond our reach
beyond our path
It will end up being prog as fuck of course.
so i'm going to try Drew's approaches next...
One thing though, do people have a preferred approach of lyrics or music first?
Every time I get an idea for a line I write it down on my phone. Often that just gets parked there for a long time but sometimes it is useful. Sometimes I'm writing several songs a month some months I write nothing. I usually write the full songs with the singer in my band but I turn up with a bunch of ideas.
Usually start backing music first but the melody of the vocal comes about the same time as the lyircs.
Better to write something that you can work on later than to sit waiting forever for the perfect line. Just keep trying whatever pops into your head no matter if it isn't perfect, the train of thought can get you somewhere interesting. And if it isn't working take a break, you can't force creativity.
more good ideas, thanks!
I think I had got to the point where i was using my lack of lyrical creativity to be an excuse to not write something. I've basically not even tried for 18 months or so, always thinking, what is the point. It's stupid as I really love working on songs but lyrics get me a stupor.
Isn't there some quote about inspiration striking but it needs to find you working? Guess I took my creative break to seriously