mjr
ADD -- blessing and curse
This is an issue that I've run into. I have a five-subject notebook that I keep a lot of lyrics and lyric ideas in.
The first several pages of this notebook have various parts of songs. Generally one or two lines. Maybe something that might work as a title, or occasionally something that might be a verse or a chorus.
The problem is, I'm stuck with most of them. I don't necessarily want to throw them out, but I don't know how good they are, or if they could be turned into something good.
As an example, something I wrote down that I think would not only make a good title, but also a good "hook" is "The Same As It Never Was".
The basic premise of the song is that the singer still doesn't have the woman he wanted. So I would have to have things like, "i'm still not holding you..." and finish it off with "so it's the same as it never was"...
But I don't know if it's GOOD or not. I guess I wouldn't really know until I actually wrote something under that premise.
So how can you tell if a line, few lines, verse, or chorus are worth keeping (and revising) or tossing?
The first several pages of this notebook have various parts of songs. Generally one or two lines. Maybe something that might work as a title, or occasionally something that might be a verse or a chorus.
The problem is, I'm stuck with most of them. I don't necessarily want to throw them out, but I don't know how good they are, or if they could be turned into something good.
As an example, something I wrote down that I think would not only make a good title, but also a good "hook" is "The Same As It Never Was".
The basic premise of the song is that the singer still doesn't have the woman he wanted. So I would have to have things like, "i'm still not holding you..." and finish it off with "so it's the same as it never was"...
But I don't know if it's GOOD or not. I guess I wouldn't really know until I actually wrote something under that premise.
So how can you tell if a line, few lines, verse, or chorus are worth keeping (and revising) or tossing?