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― scotti pruitti (wins), Saturday, 17 March 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
babyblackbreak of dawn
― mookieproof, Saturday, 17 March 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
speaking of Springsteen, narrative songs with main characters named "Johnny," "Frankie" or "Jimmy," usually found working at the docks and / or chasing a dream that wont come true
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 17 March 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
lotta marys in springsteen
― mookieproof, Saturday, 17 March 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
“Night” otm.
― big C (calstars), Saturday, 17 March 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
“Blue skies” ?
dance to this moon, because this moon is housethe moon is my heart, and my heart is the moon. break it down
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 17 March 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
Lou Reed likes songs about girls who say things. Candy Says, Lisa Says, Caroline Says, Stephanie Says
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 18 March 2018 01:04 (six years ago) link
if you're phil collins and can't think of any lyrics just throw in "all my life"
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Sunday, 18 March 2018 01:19 (six years ago) link
compare rap game to crack game, all the same etc.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 18 March 2018 05:05 (six years ago) link
I guess this is more for specific songwriters than for genres though
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 18 March 2018 05:06 (six years ago) link
Laura says the rap game is just like the crack game, but drum ‘n bass is where it’s at (ba-doop, ba-doop)
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 18 March 2018 05:31 (six years ago) link
Eddie Vedder mentions 'waves' a lot
― Dinsdale, Sunday, 18 March 2018 07:15 (six years ago) link
The riverThe sunThe road
― big C (calstars), Sunday, 18 March 2018 08:54 (six years ago) link
If your lyrics have a word that ends in the “-self” suffix then it’s perfectly acceptable to stop and explain why something is, literally or metaphorically, “on the shelf”.
― You're all losing so many points on your progress bars (Champiness), Sunday, 18 March 2018 09:02 (six years ago) link
^^^ this one drives me crazy because there's a 50/50 chance the 'shelf' part won't make a lick of sense
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 18 March 2018 10:19 (six years ago) link
Echo & The Bunnymen v concerned with things being wrong way round/upside down/inside out.
― Maltrsnapper, Monday, 19 March 2018 12:43 (six years ago) link
'in my mind' is one that I always fall back on when writing lyrics. I really wish I wouldn't, but sometimes it just works and nothing else seems to fit the metre
― loud horn beeping jazzsplaining arse (dog latin), Monday, 19 March 2018 13:49 (six years ago) link
I don't speak Spanish but I always notice it when Spanish language songs say 'mi corazón' (my heart) cos it happens so often. In French songs, especially from the 50s/60s/70s it's often 'la guerre' (war). My mum (who is French) used to say that English songwriters are always banging on about 'the rain'
― loud horn beeping jazzsplaining arse (dog latin), Monday, 19 March 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
"so all alone"
― mick signals, Monday, 19 March 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
For the melancholic singer-songwriter, starting around 1990, "bones" has become an essential part of the toolkit. "Stones" rhymes and is also dry and forbidding, and you probably want a few rusted objects around, breeze or wind too, but bones are essential.
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Monday, 19 March 2018 14:39 (six years ago) link
Tom Waits / Pixies 'Bone Machine' (hey, never noticed that!), 'Bones' by Radiohead', Alice in Chains 'Them Bones'.
― loud horn beeping jazzsplaining arse (dog latin), Monday, 19 March 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link
“Tomorrow”
― big C (calstars), Monday, 19 March 2018 14:58 (six years ago) link
filler words to help with scansion: just, tonight, babe/baby, only, now, etc. i vastly prefer a singer to use a nonsense syllable like 'ooh' if they are too musically inept to stretch a word over 2 notes (some singers just don't get how to do that)awful cliche phrases the singer never seriously means or would use in speech: on my knees, like a knife, i'm falling or on fire, etc. contrast this with cliches that we really do use in speech - got a feeling, forever, it hurts to say... stuff like this is much more acceptable to me, but it needs to be sparingly used as it can seem very lazy.
there are some rhymes that you hear the first of the pair, you know exactly the word that is coming on the next line, and it's pretty exasperating: above/love, eyes/lies, fly/sky/high, cry/die/sigh
here's a fun listhttp://gawker.com/all-226-cliches-uttered-by-katy-perry-on-her-new-album-1451718946
― mig (guess that dreams always end), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 02:02 (six years ago) link