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  1. I dont know about anybody else here on the forums, but I write a lot of music. I go through phases where I get a lot of guitar written (which is the only instrument I REALLY play), but no lyrics, and then phases where I get a lot of lyrics written, but can never match them with music. Without a band, it's hard to turn these into solid, solid ideas...but the lyrics are fun to write, all the time, and since I'm not really getting paid to entertain people with them like U2 are, I don't really have to worry TOO much about them being terrible, so my self esteem usually doesn't take a battering when I read them again months later

    Anyway, the point of this was for anyone who's ever written anything- songs, poetry, any form of lyric- to be able to share it with the rest of the guys and gals. I figure we've all got nothing to lose, and feedback never really is a bad thing, whether its positive or constructive criticism. So share what you've got! It'll be a good time, I hope.

    Here's something I wrote over the summer of 2009. It's the only song I've actually ever "completed", in that I wrote all the music and lyrics for it and actually have it recorded, on my iPod. I had to sing it, since I didn't really have a band at the time, which is why so few people have heard it (not too cocky about my voice, haha ), but I'm especially proud not only of the song itself, but that I actually got it 100% done like I promised myself I would. It sounds vaguely similar to "She Talks to Angels" by The Black Crowes, but by no means identical.


    Everything's Gonna Be Alright
    By: Matt

    Verse I
    She don't know nobody different
    She don't know nobody else
    The nights that he don't come a runnin', yeah,
    Are the nights she spends all by herself

    She lives her life no questions answered
    She don't care for the truth it seems
    The only happiness she's faking, yeah,
    Is the kind she passes off in dreams

    Chorus
    And it's not too much she's asking
    Just to have someone tonight
    To lay right down beside her,
    And whisper...
    Everything's gonna be alright

    Verse II
    She don't play nobody's favorite
    She's just a conversation piece
    A victim of some kind of depression
    Arrested by the social police

    She never shouts out in excitement
    She likes to think she knows her place
    She only seems to go a-missin'
    When she's standing right in front of his face

    Chorus
    And it's not too much she's asking
    For the words she may never hear
    She's begging him for clarity
    She needs to hear it crystal clear,
    That everything's gonna be alright

    Small, conservative solo
    Verse III
    She's giving up what she called hope, now
    That empty feeling she knew well
    And it's unclear as who's to blame
    For this life so closely resembling hell

    Those words she wants- does she deserve them?
    No matter how hard she pleas
    And if she gets them, will they cure her?
    Drive away this sick disease?

    Chorus
    Cause it's not really asking
    If it's only in her head
    And the only remedy she knows
    Is going to leave her dead
    So she closes all the windows
    And she turns out all the lights
    As she tells herself her final words-

    Everything's gonna be alright

    Music outro/fade out


    Post yours!!
  2. wow that is really good, me and my freind have made a song (me on drums, him on guitar, me on bass )but we got no lyrics, when i try to think of sum all i get in my head is U2 stuff lol. so for u to write a whole song i have much respect.
  3. Originally posted by Andrew_C:wow that is really good, me and my freind have made a song (me on drums, him on guitar, me on bass )but we got no lyrics, when i try to think of sum all i get in my head is U2 stuff lol. so for u to write a whole song i have much respect.


    Hah, thanks...like I said, it always comes in spurts for me like that. I'll get something really hammered out, but its only ever half the process. Either JUST the music or JUST the lyrics. It's really, really hard to sit down and NOT write "You're on the road...but you've got no destination..." or something else U2, ya know? It's whats in your head, and its what you want to say, and then it gets stuck there and you can't really overcome it.
  4. That is awesome, Matt, really amazing!! You really wrote all music parts (chord structure, rhythm, guitar parts, etc) for the whole song!?!?!? Woooooooww

    I'm not good composing music at all, but I write poems and lyrics pretty often, and I'm pretty good if I may say that. Most are in spanish of course, but I've wrote some in english too... If I find the time someday I'll share some here


    PS. Just to know a bit more, which chords has your song got??
  5. Here is our band´s youtube channel :

    All the songs are instrumental for now. We wrote some lyrics too, but we can´t find the way to put them together with the music. It´s not as easy as it seems ... I hope you´ll llike it. And please, don´t laught at the early Zeppelin covers. The begginings were really crapppy
  6. Originally posted by Vasult:Here is our band´s youtube channel : [YouTube Video]
    All the songs are instrumental for now. We wrote some lyrics too, but we can´t find the way to put them together with the music. It´s not as easy as it seems ... I hope you´ll llike it. And please, don´t laught at the early Zeppelin covers. The begginings were really crapppy
    Fucking LOL LOL LOL, I had seen and bookmarked your Kralovino Blues months ago without even knowing it was you!!! Such a coincidence Man, you're awesome, don't have to feel ashamed in any way I love you guys!!
  7. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]Fucking LOL LOL LOL, I had seen and bookmarked your Kralovino Blues months ago without even knowing it was you!!! Such a coincidence Man, you're awesome, don't have to feel ashamed in any way I love you guys!!


    small world...
  8. Thanks a lot for such a nice comments ! Yeah, our guitarist Peter is very talented person. All the songs and vids uploaded there are mainly his work. I need much more time to put my ideas together and compose a song ...
  9. And here´s a band i play drums in. It´s called ´´Massage´´. We´re a cover band playing on celebrations, parties and so on ...
    Here´s our homepage : http://www.massage.estranky.cz/


  10. Originally posted by LikeASong:That is awesome, Matt, really amazing!! You really wrote all music parts (chord structure, rhythm, guitar parts, etc) for the whole song!?!?!? Woooooooww

    I'm not good composing music at all, but I write poems and lyrics pretty often, and I'm pretty good if I may say that. Most are in spanish of course, but I've wrote some in english too... If I find the time someday I'll share some here


    PS. Just to know a bit more, which chords has your song got??


    God it's been SO long since I played it, I couldn't even tell you. It's a slower song...and it's really not that complex. It has just a few chords, with some slight variations/hammer-ons throughout, but yeah I organized it, and wrote the rhythm and everything, and the solo that goes over the rhythm. No drums or anything like that- a bare-bones, stripped, "acoustic" song, although it's played on a clean electric guitar. It just felt more right than an acoustic, though I originally wrote it that way.

    Later on I'll have more time, and perhaps I'll even host the mp3 somewhere so you guys can hear it. Not gonna kill me I guess. As long as people know its not supposed to be me singing, in an ideal world.
  11. Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:God it's been SO long since I played it, I couldn't even tell you. It's a slower song...and it's really not that complex. It has just a few chords, with some slight variations/hammer-ons throughout, but yeah I organized it, and wrote the rhythm and everything, and the solo that goes over the rhythm. No drums or anything like that- a bare-bones, stripped, "acoustic" song, although it's played on a clean electric guitar. It just felt more right than an acoustic, though I originally wrote it that way.

    Later on I'll have more time, and perhaps I'll even host the mp3 somewhere so you guys can hear it. Not gonna kill me I guess. As long as people know its not supposed to be me singing, in an ideal world.
    I guess we can forgive you that It looks so good from what you say, I definitely wanna hear it


  12. Im uploading now- will post the link shortly- but remember two things!

    1) NOT that complex of a song..I'm no genius

    2) Be weary of the voice...trust me, it's nothing I'd ever expect to do for a living
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