im your ugly cross-dressing motherdonkey tugger wrote:"I'm not your motherfucking brother
donkey tugger"
What's up with that then?
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- The Teach
- 8273 posts since 23 Jul, 2002 from flatness
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- KVRist
- 58 posts since 23 Jul, 2002 from Buried in the backyard.
Think of the number of songs that have the words "set me free" in them.
Then immediately change the lyrics to every song you've ever written containing the words "set me free."
Then immediately change the lyrics to every song you've ever written containing the words "set me free."
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- KVRAF
- 7879 posts since 16 Apr, 2003 from -on the outside looking in
hmmmm., aside from the excellent ringside seats for the heavyweight fight, this thread has some potential,
2 points(in kepping with the thread)
1. the preponderance of bad lyrics/poetry (not differentiating) seems to be written in a "I'm alone. no one knows my pain, solipsistic mode. Actually not nearly as much sloppy love stuff, which is at least excusable when it's genuine. (Totally open to this critique myself c.f.; carving Mettalica in the cover of my denim binder, giving moody looks and trying to write my own "deep" songs for them -'cuz they get my middleclass alienation.....)
2. As a general obseration: aside from cliches, lots of lyrics are just plain vague. Written about abstract concepts, they are hard to follow in a song. It's hard to be the kind of Hemmingway/Bukowski - write about specific details- lyricist that makes for good poetry or a storyteller. Instead lots of just general thematic stuff that is too abstract to leave an image in the mind gets out there, and the cliches actually help in that it at least let's you know what the author was trying to do. (again, guilty as charged. -But note: abstract stuff is possible, it's just harder to write well, I think. Unless you're going for pure comedy. I wrote a piece called Bill Board about advertising, DerriDoo, Derrida kind of stuff
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2 points(in kepping with the thread)
1. the preponderance of bad lyrics/poetry (not differentiating) seems to be written in a "I'm alone. no one knows my pain, solipsistic mode. Actually not nearly as much sloppy love stuff, which is at least excusable when it's genuine. (Totally open to this critique myself c.f.; carving Mettalica in the cover of my denim binder, giving moody looks and trying to write my own "deep" songs for them -'cuz they get my middleclass alienation.....)
2. As a general obseration: aside from cliches, lots of lyrics are just plain vague. Written about abstract concepts, they are hard to follow in a song. It's hard to be the kind of Hemmingway/Bukowski - write about specific details- lyricist that makes for good poetry or a storyteller. Instead lots of just general thematic stuff that is too abstract to leave an image in the mind gets out there, and the cliches actually help in that it at least let's you know what the author was trying to do. (again, guilty as charged. -But note: abstract stuff is possible, it's just harder to write well, I think. Unless you're going for pure comedy. I wrote a piece called Bill Board about advertising, DerriDoo, Derrida kind of stuff
)..what goes around comes around..