Anyone write song lyrics?

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Been writing songs for over a year now and was wondering what it is that makes you write a song.

Do you sit down and just plan write a song? Do you choose a topic? Or does it take a situation to urge you to write? Reason being is after a split with my girlfriend i've been writing ridiculous amounts and its really helping my writing develop and personally I think my style of writing has become more intelligent. Only problem now is because i'm stuck in this situation it's all I seem to be writing about, albeit in different aspects.

So what have you written songs about?
Would be cool if some people posted up some of their own lyrics.
 
i tend to write stuff for my band that means something to me

its normally about friends/peoples opinions/politics/world issues
 
Careful you'll end up like Phil Collins :p
I've been told i can write song lyrics but then having no commercial success tends to disagree with that.
For me though the more you suffer the better you get but try to forget the love struck suffering & concentrate on the Pain you feel. Pain is what makes things real & what we can all relate to. Cheesey love stuff just turns most peoples guts.
 
Whatever takes my fancy. Sometimes politics, but my lyrics are always in a narrtive style, almost. Telling stories about people I've made up.
 
I'm trying to at the moment! I'm a fairly rubbish writer but like others have said, the best stuff tends to come when you're feeling "pain" or a strong emotion.

My lyrics look like poems on a piece of paper, strange. I'm trying to get a good grasp on the whole syntax of lyrics at the moment :)
 
I'm writing at the moment, I just have a book that I pick up when I think of something and I'll just scribble stuff down in it.

Often ends up with no organisation at all, no structure, and almost always never quite know what it's about! However, when coming together with my badn when they start jamming together I can take the bits and peices and stick them together and hopefully come up with something that will work.
 
Conversely, most of the songs my band writes are influenced by less serious matters like calling up laydeez and Samuel L Jackson. The only strong emotion I felt there was "Samuel L Jackson is awesome".
 
I think lyrics have to go 50/50 with the music. Just look at Talk Tonight by Oasis. The lyrics look like they've been writen by a four year old but then listen to the song and suddenly it's so powerful. Now look at Manic Street Preachers. Does anyone trully know what on earth they're going on about? Number one with a song about the spanish civil war? Good intelligent lyrics but no one cared because it was simply a good tune with a good hook. The Beatles used to write songs by getting the tune down first then singing garbage lyrics over it about sausages and eggs, etc. to get the melody, and only then penning decent words.

Anyway, personally I have written tonnes of music but no words. Any words I do try to write don't really reflect what it is that I'm trying to get out/describe, it ends up a big jumbled nonsensical mess. Last night I was playing some riffs and singing words picked out from a book on building construction. It sounded quite political actually, stuff about energy efficiency etc. Basically I wouldn't bother taking song writing so seriously, best thing to do is to write as many songs as possible until you happen to write a classic by chance.
 
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