My first attempt at making song lyrics. The nature of lyrics themselves feel different from poetry because each stanza needs a specific rhythm. Furthermore, I’m not a musician and therefore, I don’t have an original melody that serves as a “starting point” for lyric-composing. If that makes sense. Okay, then. *Cracks knuckles* It’ll just be me and my expertise, then. And some model lyrics to take inspiration from.
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Seeking out the one this time
You can’t get any better
I reach to you in my mind
You’re my personal love letter.
*
Any window pane
Is a box of gloom
Can’t you see that I’m looking
At a world of lonely doom?
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No, you can’t get any better
*
Seek me out,
Kindred souls
Find me now,
‘Cause I’m hurting, hurting, hurting…
I don’t want to meddle
Just tell me now:
Can you find me yet?
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You, embedded with charisma
A grace, a warmth: you’re my kind
I look from a distance, I shy
Am I the kindred soul you seek and find?
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You’re no angel, it’s true
But still, I can’t get rid of the thoughts for you
If you exist…
Can you get any better?
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No, you can’t get any better
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[Refrain]
Seek me out
Kindred souls
Find me now
‘Cause I’m hurting, hurting, hurting…
I don’t want to meddle
Just tell me now:
Can you find me yet?
*****
A’right, what do you think?
Also, I looked at sample song lyrics. Turns out that unlike poems, they don’t have compunction that indicates pauses between the lines (periods, commas). Just food for thought.
