How the FUCK do I write lyrics?
>>130472945Read philosophy. Read nietzche thus spoke zrathustrA
>>130472945Get a newspaper and write songs about whats in it.There are a crap ton of songs that are about news.
>>130473102>newspaperThe FUCK is a newspaper?
dream journal amd stream of consciousness if you got nothing to say
>>130472945open the dictionary
>>130473127pretty self explanitory
>>130473152So just write nonsense like the Mars Volta?
You're overthinking it aren't you?
>>130472945Just rhyme'All night' and 'alright' is a good one
>>130473271What does that even mean?I don't even know where to start
>>130472945just get chatgpt to do it for you
>>130473454Again with the dramatics ovah here
>>130472945Read more.
>>130472945Recognize that lyrics are cringe and just go with it.
>>130472945>Now if I fuck this model>And she just bleached her asshole>And I get bleach on my t-shirt>I'mma feel like an asshole There that wasn't hard
>>130472945crap inside your own ass. then maybe you'll know.
>>130472945Read OLD comic books, read newspapers, read magazines. Try not to sound dated or out of touch.
I just rip off James Merrill or Robert Lowell or other top-notch modern poets that nobody reads anymore. Not word-for-word, but you can take themes and moods and so on and rewrite them. Also, keep things slightly allusive and vague.So for example, let's say you have a very generic (and boring) theme about commitment fears in a relationship. A bad way to write lyrics would be something like this:>I'm scared to fall too hard, girl>Cuz' no girl can make my world whirl>Like you, girl>Oooooh, girl, you twirl my knurl>But a lifetime is a long time, girlBAD. Now let's try more of a midcentury modern kind of WH Auden thing:>I trotted apace through a thick shed of sheaves>Unwinnowed, unthreshed, unretouched with their leaves>Overwithered, mouldered, the whole season missed>A harvest unfinished, untimely, unkissed>And despoiled, a langour so long it bereaves>Shall we make this a mirror? Shall we find this remiss?Total fucking ripoff of a different poem (I leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out which one), but it reads better than GIRGIRLGIRL YOU ROCKMYWORLD kind of shit.
>>130472945Write about what you do and feelWent to the store yeahGot myself some chips ohFucked myself a whore yeahSucked on her nips oh
>>130472945You don't realize how much modern pop lyrics are nonsense until you actually pay attention to it.
>>130472945Have you got a song(s) already that need lyrics? Use bullshit words and mumbojumbo while you work out placement, cadence etc, then turn them into real lyrics once you've got a decent idea of what's going to go whereRe-iterate until you like what you're doingThe only goal of lyrics is to fit the mood of the song
>>130472945Don't be a talentless hack
>>130472945Write a 2000 word essay about the thoughts you'd like to convey. Then, read through it and try to summarize entire paragraphs into one or two sentences. Then read through the result of that again and try to re-formulate those new sentences into allegories and metaphors, while still reducing all of it in overall length. Once again, re-write what you got it in some meter and optionally change out words so some of them rhyme.
heres the answer. You set a timer on your phone for 20 minutes and write lyrics. i know you said you dont know how. thats your problem. you think you need a theoretical understanding of a million concepts rather than just starting, youre probably like this with everything in your life. RISK doing it wrong, risk writing bullshit. You can spend 10000 years researching a difficult hike, trying to account for the weather, whats the best gear, the best route or you can just be the guy who starts walking and knows any problem he runs into can be dealt with then.
>>130472945have quality thoughts. how you get there is your path
You don't. You come up with a catchy melody first and then you come up with lyrics that fit that melody, starting off writing nonesensical stuff and slowly over time have it make sense. This is pretty much how The Beatles wrote most of their songs
>>130472945write what you know
>>130472945>there once was a man from nantucketgo from there
Here's some useful rhymes to get you started:Girl - WorldRings - ThingsHead - BedMoon - JuneDay - AwayThis - KissGood - Should
Step 1 is read. I, like many others, heard "the best writers are the best readers," ignored it for years, and was still surprised when my writing improved tenfold from reading for pleasure. I'm not super cultured, I like beat poetry guys, currently reading wuthering heights but honestly I'm not super into it.Step 2, look up the interviews Andy Partridge did 20 years ago online. There's one that's a more general overview of his process and probably a hundred about specific songs he wrote. On the surface, some of what he talks about seems obvious, but when you consciously use his strategies to organize your thoughts it makes the whole process more streamlined, as well as drawing out ideas you wouldn't expect yourself capable of.You could also take the Zappa/Ween route where you think the composition speaks for itself, thereby permitting you to make the lyrics intentionally ridiculous. There's a fine line to be walked there, a lot of people throw good taste to the wayside and end up making annoying, obscene drivel. Another thing people say, clean comedy is much harder.
>>130473202ya dog you gotta write before you can write so just write
>>130472945Read. Read. Read.
Make a story about some shit it can be about you having a shit day for example turn that some bitch into lyrics but it depends on the structure of the instrumental Also you need to learn what is a verse what is a chorus what is a bridge pre chorus outro ect
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