zed10R wrote:Persuader wrote: Words and the rythms of the phrases is way easier to come up with when you have a story to work around IMO.
I agree, for the most part. I don't say to myself "I am going to write a song about government corruption" and then build everything around that. The music comes first, before any subject, and the feel of the music tells me what the song will be about. For me, the "story" begins with whatever the first line is. If the music feels mean, the first line is something a very mean person would do. If the music is violent, the first line is....you get the idea. After that first line, words don't come so easy. I write a lot of fragmented ideas and I can't draw enough out of them or explain them enough, so in the end I have kindof a riddle. But that's what practice is for, right??
Sure, gotta crawl before you walk and all that. Sometimes the "feel" of the song can guide you, whatever sounds right you know. It may take some time to find what kind of style that fits you the best, but just keep on writing. If noone can understand the meaning of your lyrics, never mind, just look at Meshuggah´s lyrics...
.:: My friends and I, there were no others ::.
