Looking for Someone to Put Music to my Lyrics

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I've written some lyrics and have chorded some. I'd love to hear them recorded, cause I can't do that myself yet. I'm willing to pay if I like what you did. ( no more than $250) I write in Country-Pop, Pop/country genre but any would be fine. Let me know if anyone can help. Thanks. Here's one called "Glad You Found Me".

"Glad You Found Me"

G] Well, I've heard the wise men say
There's always someone for everyone
D]Yea, I learned that love was blind
And it never could have noticed me
C9] But those words became true
When you came right off the blue G D

C] You swept me off my feet
G]To a place I've longed to be
D]A place I'll never leave
Em] Cause I'm no longer C] desperate
Am] And I'm glad you Bm] found me

I used to see lovers and believers
Sitting around, showing their affection
While I sat alone listening to the radio
And a man would call up the station
Say the sweetest words I'll never know
And then request one of those love songs
Kept asking myself If I'll ever find
That special someone in my life

(Chorus)

Now every song played on the radio
Is the trail I've been chasing down
Girl, you're everything a love is
And more than words can say
 
It looks like you already have the chord progressions worked out. Why not grab a keyboard and start playing melodies over them?
 
What's the difference between country/pop and pop/country?
 
This is quite an odd request if you ask me. But you didn't, so I won't say what I just said.
 
I'm thinking Whitney Houson-esque on the chorus...

I wonder if Beyonce's free? I'll give her a call... she likes songs with Bm in them...
 
Well I would do it, but let's say Country/Pop would not be would it would sound like; I'm an indie rock/alternative rock kinda guy lol.
 
Most of us could put some music together, but looking at these lyrics, you don't have any rhythm pattern established:
First verse has 6 lines, 'bridge' has 5 lines (got to finish the Am Bm progression to another chord)
Then next verse has 8 lines, and the chorus has 4 which don't make a whole lotta sense (guess that's ok for C&W?)
 
Mike is right...you need to consider the meter of the verses.
Granted, you don't need exactly the same number of syllables in ever line...but if you run too short or too long, it makes for awkward singing.

Also...lose some of the cliché lines --- "You swept me off my feet", "you came right off the blue", etc (and the correct phrase is "out of the blue" not "off the blue") and replace them with more original phrases.
Sometimes it's hard to get away from it...things like "my tears fell like rain" has been used a million times (I've used it). If that's the ONLY way to say it, then you have to use it, but sometimes you can get the same meaning across using less cliché and more originality.
One or two is OK in the whole song...but when you string along a few in a verse...it's lame. :)
 
You should post this at MCS...lots of lyric writers over there and people write to their stuff all the time...a singer can help you work out the bit of rewriting ect...cant guarantee someone will write a song for you however you have a better chance getting it done over there.

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miroslav said:
Also...lose some of the cliché lines --- "You swept me off my feet", "you came right off the blue", etc (and the correct phrase is "out of the blue" not "off the blue") and replace them with more original phrases.
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"Off the blue" is oddly original.
On one of my songs {"Shenanigans"}, I had the line "Like a reindeer urinating in the frost". People that saw it just went "Urrrgh !" or "What the hell is that ?" or twee sentiments of that ilk ! Too many people like bland, harmless, well worn phrases and cliches.
 
If people found those lyrics strange, or somehow offensive, I'll never post any of mine. Those who checked out my tune "Beauty in Lividity" probably are clueless that one of the passages is "You've stopped breathing as I'm chewing on you, I have a hard on. It's Tantalizing knowing you will be rotting soon."
 
Murdersgalore said:
If people found those lyrics strange, or somehow offensive, I'll never post any of mine. Those who checked out my tune "Beauty in Lividity" probably are clueless that one of the passages is "You've stopped breathing as I'm chewing on you, I have a hard on. It's Tantalizing knowing you will be rotting soon."
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Sik * Sounds a bit like cannibal corpse!
 
Very much inspired by them. Not the new shit. Chris Barnes had more of a sick humor to his lyrics that the rest of the band haven't managed to capture since he left.
 
mjbphotos said:
Most of us could put some music together, but looking at these lyrics, you don't have any rhythm pattern established:
First verse has 6 lines, 'bridge' has 5 lines (got to finish the Am Bm progression to another chord)
Then next verse has 8 lines, and the chorus has 4 which don't make a whole lotta sense (guess that's ok for C&W?)
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Psssshhhh who uses RULES anymore?

Haha just kidding :D
 
country-pop is just Country mixed with Pop and I meant to say Pop/Rock not Country/pop, yea, that way its the same. sorry
 
Post is a little old...so I don't know if you're still looking. ?
 
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