Robin Frederick has a site with pages on how to write a song.
She recommends a few steps, but I only focused on the first two:
1) Title the song
2) Find a ghost song and rewrite the lyrics
After that, there are other steps to picking chord progressions and changing the melody so that in the end, you have a completely new song.
I promised a song in yesterday's post about the Iris Murdoch book that I am reading.
The song title is Inexhaustible. If you think that was easy to work into a song, you are mistaken. There is nothing inherently romantic about that word. It is an intellectual word, cleverly used by one of Murdoch's characters to define love.
The ghost song that I selected is a secret, but it shouldn't be too tough to figure out. Because I haven't written any music for the song, you'll have to make up your own melody. Use the ghost song, if you can figure it out. Feel free to guess in the comments.
Here it is. Like it or not. Take it or leave it. Laugh or cry. I spent a grand total of two hours on it and I think it shows. Please note that I was waffling between "baby" and "lady" in the lyrics. I went with "baby" because that matches my speech better.
for Jocelyn (who never reads my blog)
I’ll never tire of saying your name
We stroll along and I feel the sun
Even in the rain.
My heart races at the touch of your hand
Finding you, I could not have planned
When you look into my eyes
When you kiss me and say
“Oh, my love, I hate goodbyes,”
I think you’re inexhaustible to me, baby
You’re inexhaustible to me
Wrap your arms around me, baby,
Touching you stops all time.
Until forever passes
I’ll just stay in this love sublime.
You have me trapped; I don’t want to leave,
Life without you I can’t conceive.
We’re actors in a love story
Don’t know the ending and the script remains a mystery.
I feel you’re inexhaustible to me, baby
Inexhaustible to me
You think that someday I’ll lose my affection
This infatuation will die.
You think that maybe I’ll find perfection in another’s eyes.
But in your eyes I see something more
And it’s your love that I want to explore.
There are no limits that I can see
If I start now, I can discover you for eternity
I know you’re inexhaustible to me, baby
Inexhaustible to me
You’re so inexhaustible to me, baby
Whew! Does inexhaustible work in this kind of lyric?
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