Help with writers block/song lyrics

[cremebrulee]

hi~
I am looking for help with my f*#@ing writers' block. I had a bout with depression after an accident and my head hasn't been right since (not that it was before... I just can't write lyrics!).

Anyway, Iam a singer and songwriter with sometimes sexually oriented lyrics/songs, sometimes the tunes are just folk, sometimes acoustic rock, you get the gist of it.

You can hear what I have done before (so you have some idea what my style is) here: Creme Brulee's Music


Please help! I am supposed to record a CD in a month and I need two more songs to complete it. I have a few ideas, but nothing is gelling.

Thanks

~Creme




(posted in the general boards too, need all the help I can get!!)

 

[karmadog]

You might try posting what you have at the poetry feedback board.

There are some pretty helpful people there.

Writer's block may very well be illusory, though. If you just start writing, even though you think it's crap, it will work itself out.

 

[oggbashan]

Part song

Here is a first try as far as it goes. It might start the ideas flowing.
I don't want the copyright.

****
I'm a girl, he's a guy, but he is far too shy,
I need him so much that I want to cry.

I want to have his arms holding me tight
the touch of my hand gives him a fright

I just know he would be honest and true
but how do I make him say "I Love You"?

He should be a dream, a mean loving machine
yet he doesn't know how to make me scream

How do I tell him to make just one pass
I'd do the rest till we roll in the grass

I'd hug and I'd kiss till he died of bliss
yet I'm scared one touch would
****

Hope that rubbish helps, if only to amuse.

Og

 

[TrinaT]

It may help if we knew more about the songs you've already written for the album, What is the general mood of the album or is it a combination of various moods and feelings? Is this album one of a sexual nature, i.e., romantic, erotic, etc.?

TrinaT.

 

[MathGirl]

Please help! I am supposed to record a CD in a month and I need two more songs to complete it.

Dear CB,
I'm offering the verse below if you wish to use it. I envision it being sung by an adenoidal tenor with accompanying Jew's harp, jugs, gut bucket, and kazoo. It may not be up to your standards, but it's free. Best wishes, MG

I'm a redneck trucker, an' I don't give a flip,
Gotta handlebar moustache to hide ma hare lip,
I love ta smoke an' spit, an' I always chew snuff,
I like a gut fulla whiskey anna mouf fulla muff.

Ma saddest day was when ma hound dog died,
I thowed the carcass in ma truck an' went fer a ride,
When Ah got back home I felt better, sho 'nuff,
I had a gut fulla whiskey anna mouf fulla muff.

Happiest day of ma life was when I wed Mary Lou,
Carried her inta ma trailer and yelled, "Wahoo,"
She sez, "I usually gits paid, an' I like it rough,
I'll giveya a gut fulla whiskey anna mouf fulla muff."

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I don't know I've ever had real writers' block. I've had times when I couldn't think of anything to write, or when everything I wrote seemed like shit, and times when I was so despondent about what I'd written that I just stopped writing out of despair. If any of these sound like something you're suffering from, I can tell you what seemed to work for me.

I suffer from an overdeveloped critical facility that I must work very hard to control or I wouldn't write anything, because nothing's ever good enough. The things that's helped me most with this was drugs: antidepressanats. They made it so the best I could do was good enough, and suddenly stuff started pouring out of me. I don't know if this cure is available to you, and the drugs take like 3 weeks to start working, but since you had an accident and a bout with the big D, I would certainly explore this option.

Other things that have worked with me include

--a change of scene: travelling or working someplace new.
--editing instead of writing. Have someone else write something for you and edit it to make it your own. Or else use someone else's lyrics and rewriting them. Probably this will lead to you rewriting it entirely so it'll be original. It's a sneaky way of making yourself write, I admit, but it's worked for me.
--Digging up some old, crappy stuff and trying to fix it
--Writing with someone else

How about just some instrumental filler? No, huh?

I used to do lyrics too. If the melody is strong enough and you have enough time, the lyrics seem to kind of write themselves if you sing the song enough, but you don't have time. I always thought there should be more songs about masturbation, which is probably something everyone can relate too. I wrote a song called "A Bachelor's Hand", a happy little reggae-influenced number about saturday night frustration, "Oh the pain of a bachelor's hand..." &c.

Really though, with the injury and the depression, youmight really have something organic going on, something medical. It might be worth talking to you MD about.

Best of luck,

---dr.M.

 

[MathGirl]

Dr M's hand

I wrote a song called "A Bachelor's Hand", a happy little reggae-influenced number about saturday night frustration
---dr.M.

Dear Dr M,
I love the "Batchelor's Hand" idea ........

"I got a batchelor's hand with a great big callous,
From strokin' it up and down my phallus.........."

Helpfully,
MG

 

[Coralee]

I've also suffered from bouts of depression that make writing damn near impossible. The one thing that I found helped the most was advice one of my professors gave me:

Go out and get yourself a colouring book and some crayons and just have some fun.

Believe me, it works. Otherwise get your self some SSI drugs. They work phenomenally well.

Coralee

 

[cremebrulee]

YES!

See, this is why I love lit!
I have posted for help on actual MUSIC sites and come up empty handed every time.
I LOVE YOU MATH GIRL!!
I have another one to add to that redneck collection called "Younger men with Pickup trucks" that folks seem to find amusing. I'll share it some time when I get it recorded.

Coralee~ I have tried the drugs, they flatlined me emotionally. Sorry to hear you fight the demon too... I'll get the crayons!

Dr_mabeuse ~ thank you, I'll take it to heart

karmadog~ I will post it there as soon as I can, thanks

oggbashan~ makes me think, that's a good thing. Some ideas there...

TrinaT~ the album is an eclectic collection of songs I have written and NOT recorded yet, two songs at my link will be on it , MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION and Wish On The Wind. From there, I have :

LIKE I WANT YOU, an alternative acoustic piece about someone who is hungry to know whether the other person feels the way they do ("Baby do you want me, do you need me, do you feel me, do you bleed me...does it almost drive you crazy~ tell me that you want me like I want you")

YOUNGER MEN WITH PICKUP TRUCKS, a goofy country song ~ comedy piece ("Woe is me, I married and older man. I know that he loves me and he's doin the best that he can, but it gets pretty boring when he's layin there snoring and it seems like my life really sucks, so I lie there and dream about a younger man wih a really big.......pickup truck") It's awful, but for some reason they love it.

THen there are two songs wih a Native American flair to them, The OWL AND THE BUTTERFLY and THE JOURNEY.

See? All very eclectic. But I mostly write sensually
charged folk-rock. That's what I'd like to get going, it's where I
feel most at home.


THANKS! THANKS! THANKS!

~Creme

here's a link to my stuff...
http://artistlaunch.com/artist4.asp?artistid=3948

 

[dr_mabeuse]

No wonder you're depressed: you'vbe been working on Country and western stuff. Eschew it, man! Eschew the hell out of it!
C&W is the only genre which is inherently self-parodying.

Note that MathGirl's lyrics immediately fell into the form of a C&W ballad?

Here's the real first verse of 'Bachelor's Hand'

Late Friday night,
Home all alone,
Women on the street
Make me ache to the bone.

I'm not rich, I son't dance,
Not a movie star or athelete,
I can't beat the odds,
But I can sure beat the meat

(Chorus: everybody!)

Oh the pain of a Bachelor's hands
Oh the pain of a Bachelor's hands
No one understands,
Oh the pain of a Bachelor's hands

etc. etc. copyright 2003 IrritatingTunes, Inc.

---dr Tommy M.

 

[MathGirl]

I'm not rich, I don't dance,
Not a movie star or athelete,
I can't beat the odds,
But I can sure beat the meat

Dear DrM,
That was absolutely beautiful. Sniff.
MG

 

[cremebrulee]

OOOOOH

*giggles*

 

[MathGirl]

Chew

Originally posted by dr_mabeuse Eschew it, man! Eschew the hell out of it!

Eschew DIS, doc.
MG

 

[oggbashan]

Cereal Pome

I think Cereal Pome needs the Country and Western treatment.

Goes with the sheep.

Og.

 

[MathGirl]

Re: Cereal Pome

Goes with the sheep.Og.

Dear Og,
DurtGurl got some reader feedback about "Patty and the Jukes Family." The guy was absolutely outraged that sex with sheep was mentioned. I think that reader doth protest too much.
Baaa,
MG

 

[oggbashan]

Re: Re: Cereal Pome

Dear Og,
DurtGurl got some reader feedback about "Patty and the Jukes Family." The guy was absolutely outraged that sex with sheep was mentioned. I think that reader doth protest too much.
Baaa,
MG

Sheep are easier than kangaroos. Kangaroo tail makes good soup.

How do like the full colour hat?

Og

 

[cremebrulee]

FYI

I do not write country music, dr_m. I wrote a parody of country music. PLEASE don't think I do that on a regular basis!

Yikes




~Creme

Creme Brulee's Music

 

[MathGirl]

Ovines and chapeaux

Sheep are easier than kangaroos. Kangaroo tail makes good soup.How do like the full colour hat?

Dear Og,
I don't thing we're talking about the relative food value of the critters.

I love the hat. I think of it saying 'happy birthday' on the top with holes for little candles.
MG

 

[gauchecritic]

By way of taking the piss out of everyone that seriously replied to someone asking them to do their job for them with no pay.

I too am suffering writer's block because of my, at the moment, "hard knock life" and even though I don't get paid tuppence for posting here I would be grateful if anyone here could write a story for me which involves males and/or females and anything else other than animals.

I would only accept "5" material obviously and not give any credit.

Thanking you in advance

Gauche

 

[MathGirl]

Snarl

Dear Gauchie,
What got your nappies in a twist?
MG

 

[cremebrulee]

GAUCHE~

NUMBER ONE~
I am not asking anyone to do my job for me. I was merely looking for help and suggestions or this writers' block, something I have never dealt with to this degree in the past.
NUMBER TWO~
I have not requested anyone actually WRITE lyrics for me, I was looking for inspiraton.
NUMBER THREE~
Never once did I say I would not give credit for help given, not ONCE did I say I expected work for free. I have little to offer, that's true, but I can promise two things~ liner notes credit and a copy of th finished CD project ~which, BTW, is going to be minimally produced as I have little to work with. I have friends playing live on the project for the same compensation as I mentioned above with the addition of a CD recording party with hors deorves and such. Nothing huge, as I am a single Mom who has been out of real work for over two years due to a back injury.

If you don't want to help, I respect that.
There are some that may though.
For them I am thankful.

On the other hand, if by chance the CD project turns into a great thing and there's a moneymaking hit involved (you and I BOTH know the odds of that) I would be more than happy to compensate whomever was kind enough to help me out.

Hope your day is sunny too, gauchecritic.


~Creme

 

[Dirty Slut]

I know I'm brand new here, but...

Like you I had a problem with depression hindering my muse. It wasn’t until someone suggested that I use the depression to write from my dark side that my writer’s block faded away. Here, I’ll start it off and you see if you can add to it, or put in the chorus. Then maybe I’ll add some more later.

DS

Do you know what it’s like
to have yesterday follow sunset
into a night filled full of alone?
I do, yeah I do.
~
Have you ever cried for help
and heard the wind curse; “No!”
in whispered thunder?
I have, yeah I have.
~
Did you ever pray to God
to heal the renting in your heart,
and knelt in the shout of his silence.
Well I have. Oh yes, I have.

 

[wildsweetone]

I've never written a song in my life, I struggle with poetry. So, actually I don't have any experienced help to offer. But, I can give you a couple of suggestions to try...

(a)Try using all five senses to enhance the song. What smells assail you? What can you hear? If it's a song of Love, can you hear heartbeats? What would touching whatever your song is about, feel like? etc.

(b) Try holding a crayon in the opposite hand that you write with to colour in.

(c) Try writing with your other hand.

(d) Cut pictures from a magazine, place them in a box, choose one without looking. Write what you see. Write about the background.

(e) Get a piece of A4 paper, turn it sideways (i.e. landscape), make a brainstorm of anything that crosses your mind under Roget's Thesaurus, Synopsis of Categories. Class V. Volition. Choose one single area that piques your interest. Write whatever comes into your mind for a minimum of two minutes.

Good luck

 

[oggbashan]

Re: I know I'm brand new here, but...

Like you I had a problem with depression hindering my muse. It wasn’t until someone suggested that I use the depression to write from my dark side that my writer’s block faded away. Here, I’ll start it off and you see if you can add to it, or put in the chorus. Then maybe I’ll add some more later.

DS

Welcome to Author's Hangout. Watch out for the thread hijackers and the sensitive souls.

Depression seems as common here as writer's block. I enjoyed the sentiments expressed because I've been there too.

I write mine out in prose and depress others.

That's if they are not depressed by reading through my long stories.

Best wishes from

Og

 

[MathGirl]

Og's hat revisited

I write mine out in prose and depress others.

Dear Og,
I think that hat makes the wearer immune to depression.
MG