Taste, touch, sight, sound, smell, and movement are descriptors that help bring your listener into an experience of a small moment. A small moment is a snapshot of life, a scene where your song is set within. Try choosing a small moment and writing about it using your senses of taste, touch, sight, sound, smell, and movement. Just write. Notice how much repetition, simple language, and how clean and clear is the main message in the chorus.
What message do you want your listener to walk away from the song knowing? This is your chorus. What small moment shows a great example of that main message? This is your first verse.
Oh, if he really does exist Why did he desert me In my hour of need I truly am indeed Alone again, naturally. Then in nineteen fifteen my country said Son It's time to stop rambling 'cause there's work to be done So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun And they sent me away to the war.
And through it all she offers me protection A lot of love and affection Whether I'm right or wrong. Since you went away the days grow long And soon I'll hear old winter song But i miss you most of all my darling When autumn leaves start to fall. And I wish I, wish I knew the right words To make you feel better, walk out of this place Defeat them in your secret battle Show them you can be your own man again.
When you're weary, feeling small When tears are in your eyes I will dry them all I'm on your side. I've been crying over you Crying over you and you said so long Left me standing all alone Alone and crying, crying, crying, crying. Rest your head you worry too much it's going to be alright when times get rough you can fall back on us don't give up please don't give up.
And the tears come streaming down your face When you lose something you can't replace When you love someone, but it goes to waste Could it be worse? May God bless and keep you always May your wishes all come true May you always do for others And let others do for you. Today could have been the day That you blow out your candles Make a wish as you close your eyes Today could have been the day Everybody was laughing Instead I just sit here and cry.
Poverty stole your golden shoes It didn't steal your laughter And heartache came to visit me But I knew it wasn't ever after. Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here Here comes the sun, here comes the sun And I say it's all right.
I would hold you in my arms I would take the pain away Thank you for all you've done Forgive all your mistakes. I can tell by your eyes that you've probably been cryin' forever and the stars in the sky don't mean nothin' to you, they're a mirror. I just called to say I love you I just called to say how much I care I just called to say I love you And I mean it from the bottom of my heart.
If there's love just feel it And if there's life we'll see it This is no time to be alone, alone yeah I won't let you go. If heaven wasn't so far away I'd pack up the kids and go for the day Introduce them to their grandpa Watch 'em laugh at the way he talks.
Oh, why you look so sad? Tears are in your eyes Come on and come to me now Don't be ashamed to cry Let me see you through 'cause I've seen the dark side too. And I know, you're a part of me And it's your song that sets me free I sing it while I feel I can't hold on I sing tonight cause it comforts me. In the arms of an Angel far away from here From this dark, cold hotel room, and the endlessness that you fear You are pulled from the wreckage of your silent reverie You're in the arms of an Angel; may you find some comfort here.
And I don't want the world to see me Cuz I don't think that they'd understand When everything's made to be broken I just want you to know who I am. Oh where, oh where, can my baby be? The Lord took her away from me She's gone to heaven so I've got to be good So I can see my baby when I leave this world.
The leader of the band is tired And his eyes are growing old But his blood runs through my instrument And his song is in my soul My life has been a poor attempt To imitate the man I'm just a living legacy To the leader of the band. Oh now feel it comin' back again like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind forces pullin' from the center of the earth again I can feel it.
You're gone, gone, gone away I watched you disappear All that's left is a ghost of you Now we're torn, torn, torn apart. I've been holding out so long I've been sleeping all alone Lord I miss you I've been hanging on the phone I've been sleeping all alone I want to kiss you.
My lover's gone his boots no longer by my door he left at dawn and as I slept I felt him go. Nobody knows Nobody knows but me That I sometimes cry If I could pretend that I'm asleep When my tears start to fall I peek out from behind these walls I think nobody knows Nobody knows no. So long ago, I don't remember when That's when they say I lost my only friend Well they said she died easy of a broken heart disease As I listened through the cemetery trees.
I can still feel you hold my hand, little man And even the moment I knew You fought it hard like an army guy Remember I leaned in and whispered to you. We drank a toast to innocence We drank a toast to now And tried to reach beyond the emptiness But neither one knew how. And you probably don't want to hear tomorrow's another day Well I promise you you'll see the sun again And you're asking me why pain's the only way to happiness And I promise you you'll see the sun again.
Never mind, I'll find someone like you I wish nothing but the best for you too Don't forget me, I beg I remember you said. For you, there'll be no more crying For you, the sun will be shining And I feel that when I'm with you It's alright, I know it's right. You're not gone you're still here With me all the time You're still here When I close my eyes I still see you I still feel you. I want to thank you for giving me the best day of my life Oh just to be with you is having the best day of my life.
And the hardest part Was letting go, not taking part You really broke my heart And I tried to sing But I couldn't think of anything And that was the hardest part. Haunted folkie Marling was 16 when she wrote her break-out ballad — a divination of teenage heartache with a streak of flinty maturity that punches the listener in the gut. One of the best songs ever written about ageing and being forced to make peace with the person you are becoming.
Coming out of his experiences as a too-cool-for-school DJ in New York, the song functions perfectly well as a satire of Nathan Barley-type trendies. All of that — the poetry, the poise, the repressed sob — comes together most perfectly here, on this undying lament from his very first record. As the lyrics attest, they ultimately passed like ships in a long, sad night.
She died three months before Cohen, in July Shortly beforehand he wrote to her his final farewell — a coda to the ballad that had come to define her in the wider world.
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Andrew Eldritch is the great forgotten lyricist of his generation. Amid the choirs and the primordial guitars, what gives the nine-minute belter its real power are the lyrics — which may or may not allude to the not-at-all amicable departure from the Sisters of Wayne Hussey and Craig Adams. As with Leonard Cohen you could spend the rest of your days debating the greatest Morrissey lyrics. But surely there has never been a more perfect collection of couplets than that contained in their opus.
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The result was a feverish delving into familial angst, framed by a prism of nightmarish hallucination. He was never more searing than on this early confessional — a rumination on his poverty-wracked childhood and the addictions that ripped like wildfire through his extended family in Compton and Chicago. He crashed back to earth with his masterpiece — and its title track, a stunning meditation on gang violence, Aids, political instability and natural disaster. But the satanic majesty also flows from the lyrics — which spoke to the pandemonium of the era and the sense that civilisation could come crashing in at any moment.
Which Bowie lyrics to single out? The uncanny last will and testament that was the entirety of Blackstar — a ticking clock of a record that shapeshifted into something else entirely when Bowie passed away three days after its release? There is shameless revisionism and then there is claiming that Noel Gallagher is a great lyricist.
Blur waxing clever, winking at Martin Amis etc, could never hold a candle to Oasis being gleefully boneheaded.
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