Use other ideas please...

1. Songs about being lonely and heartbroken in New York, with references to specific squares and avenues

Now just you hold a minute there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Nykcs7Zhg

2. here's a list of several modes of transport that can't possibly deliver me back to the arms of the one I love

3. here's a list of all the modes of transport that might deliver me back to the arms of the one I love. but if they all should fail me, I am prepared to walk the entire way there

4. I'm rich and famous and everyone is jealous of me.

xpost to Tom D. Lots of great songs about feeling lonely in New York (Roxy Music's 'To Turn You On' springs to mind). This thread was inspired by this latest St Vincent effort

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n48vQgfXygc

5. Here is a list of all the natural disasters and manmade obstacles that I will overcome to get back into the arms of the one I love

5. Rhyming Sun with Fun.

Sorry I mean 6

7. Using "baby" to refer to a loved one who is not actually s baby.

8. Here's to the club and the enjoyable things we're going to do in the club. Let's hear it for the club, everybody.

9. Touring is a hard job, never knowing which town is next, a thousand anonymous faces, etc.

10. Everyone: this genre of music that I am playing and you are listening to is the best genre of music! Viva music!

11. S/he left me and I am inconsolable. Somehow, in spite of all obstacles, I will persist.

12. Here is an assemblage of words that I got out of a dictionary which sounded cool to me but that I don't fully understand. I'm hoping that the angst with which I deliver them will compensate for my misuse of language.

13. Here's how much we don't care (we care)

14. "I don't know, I don't know, I don't know"

15. I'm using an extended metaphor to illustrate the extent to which I would like to have sex with you.

okay, okay we get it; you all just listened to Katy Perry's new album

Katy Perry is using metaphors now?

16. I have occupied the mind of an hunter gatherer/indigenous shaman/defrosted caveman/majestic cetacean, and I look upon the paradise you've paved and see folly.

17. You have a wonderful booty

18. And you should shake said booty to the beat of my song.

19. "Whoa oh oh whoa o-o-o-o-o oh whoa-oh OH WHA-UH-OH-OH oh oh oh oh OH! WHOA! OH FUCKING OH OH OH OH WHOA OH" (quote pulled from the popular book series How To Turn A Pop Song Into A Stadium Sing-Along And To Drive People Grocery Shopping Insane For Lazy Idiots)

20. You are great, just like this great song. I want to metaphorically put you on replay, just like you will do literally for this song. I promise it'll last more than 30 seconds.

21. Vaguely inspirational words and phrases slotted haphazardly together in order to produce something that looks like it might be lyrics if you aren't paying attention

(Actually sometimes original ideas are the worst - I can't think of another song with the same basic idea as Rude by Magic, but that's because it's a bad idea and they should have rejected it immediately, except the bit where it made them lots of money I guess)

I honestly would like to hear more songs about defrosted cavemen.

22. ironically, the genre of music I am celebrating in my lyrics is the polar opposite of the genre of music my backing band is currently playing

^(this is not to say that Morbid Angel's 'Best Ever Boombox Folk Band Out of Tampa' isn't an all-time classic)

23. what if good girl but sex???????

24. I am a simple country person with simple tastes and simple needs. Unlike those fancy urban people who are not as real as me and my friends.

Possibly relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=734wnHnnNR4

and

Rhymes I never want to hear again

dear god that was 12 years ago

25. Magic Incantation--I want to extend my hands and fasten them on you.

26. I am a comedian, I consume tobacco products, and at the stroke of 12, I also consume cannabis. I obtain my amorous liaisons while I move at a pace slightly faster than a jog.

27. The wrongness of our love makes it somehow more enticing

28. I'm down on my knees and beggin you please

29. She's gone. I'm stupid drunk but I can't forget her.

There should be a thread that's the opposite of this -- amazing ideas that aren't used often enough.

30. That song that every band on Burger Records has written and recorded multiple times

31. I'm a young male musician who lives a debaucherous lifestyle. I'm emotionally unavailable and many of my songs are about women I don't get along with, but it's okay because I drown out with meaningless sex, drugs and cheap thrills.

32. I'm an indie musician but I'm heavily inspired by 90s r&b. Ironic, right?

Also I agree, a thread that's the opposite of this would be awesome

33. this is a song about a serial killer it's called the serial killer song

34. I think you should be with me, I'm quite attractive

35. Remember when we were younger and things were much simpler than now when we are successful musicians

Also agreed w/Moodles that #16 might actually be underrepresented

22. ironically, the genre of music I am celebrating in my lyrics is the polar opposite of the genre of music my backing band is currently playing

― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Tuesday, July 11, 2017 12:25 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^(this is not to say that Morbid Angel's 'Best Ever Boombox Folk Band Out of Tampa' isn't an all-time classic)

― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Tuesday, July 11, 2017 12:29 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A+

36. I remember the time when it was just me and my brothers running 'round the neighbourhood causing trouble and smoking pot. That was a long time ago now, and I'm a successful singer-songwriter of mediocre radio songs

37. My lyrics are nonsense and sung in a made up language

38. They're all trying to keep her down, but she's so ice cold that they can't even. Oh, and she's got a kooky side too.

39. Moratorium on outcasts please

40. My relative success as an artist grants me insight into complex economic and political quandaries that perplex many dedicated and qualified professional experts. I shall now relate my thoughts on same.

41.
Something something something something pollution
Something something something something solution

I wanna fuck

I just need to fuck

Whoa yeah

43. Observing this person doing an everyday type job has given me a lot of ideas about what they're like; also, this song is named after their job.

44. The doorway to profound insight and deeper understanding is wide open, maybe with drugs or something but also maybe like you can just look at a flower or something. Why don't all those fools see?

45. Babes are always crampin' my style but I'm a freewheelin rebel and nobody can tie me down.

46. Rock was better at some earlier point, wasn't it folks? Also this symbolizes how we're not innocent anymore and love will never be as sweet as it once was, life is so bleak and horrible.

47. I just realized you can basically list a bunch of familiar names, events, or pop culture tidbits. and this counts as lyrics!

48. See, at the end, the sad cycle continues, so I repeat the first stanza, which also saves on songwriting time.

49. It's a really happy and easy to relate to song, won't my fans love blowing people's minds when they realize the protagonist is actually an ax murderer!

50. I'm gonna have sex tonight
I just gotta have sex tonight
And it could be with anyone!
Literally with anyone!
And if there's not sex tonight
I'm gonna cry the whole night through (gonna jerk off tonight as a last resort baby)

51. I've had a kid and it's really made me open up to expressing the gentler optimistic side of life, except on all the other songs on this album.

52. I don't care about my baby or babies, I only care about my sweet lovin' baby, and I'm gonna have sex tonight, gonna make the sun sweat as the sun sets because it's so hot

53. I'm going to mispronounce and use incorrectly one of the only two words I know in Spanish/French as it makes me look like I tour around the world.

54. Showing off by saying you travel around the world. Extra boring if you mention any of these cities: Tokyo, Paris, London, New York.

55: check out ma amalog snyth burplin

56: call and response

57: the old switcheroo
(a) quiet / loud
(b) sounds like tful 282 then all of a sudden who'da thunk it entirely unprecedented switch to mr bungles mind blown

58: our wild and uncontrolled music is presented to you in
ABABCAB format

59. We have a digeridoo player and a guy who raps about the world and a violinist who wears a velvet top hat and a leopardskin waistcoat. Brighton's just so chilled out isn't it?

thread is saying way more about ilxors than about music

indeed

no shit

you don't say

37. My lyrics are nonsense and sung in a made up language

― octobeard, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 00:09 (twelve hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is the only valid approach to lyric writing imo

Jona Lewie knows the score

all criticism is autobiography

60. There's twenty-six letters in the alphabet, now let's go through every single one of them and think of words that start with those letters!

(sorry, my 2 year-old's got me watching nothing but Sesame Street these days)

61. I implore you, raise your hands aloft as if indifferent to the situation.

despite my participation above I'm increasingly more interested in the proposed opposite thread, I'm not sure this one can ever get escape velocity from "lol rap/rock lyrics, but in stiff old guy language" material

DC's been killing it ITT but start a new thread by all means :-)

^ Yep! For instance, while I agree that POV of a serial killer has been done to death, I'm totally game for more songs with the POV of a bad cop.

62. Funk is the foundational element of our universe.

63. Money and love have a fraught relationship.

64. For your consideration: my freshly minted acronym.

62. Funk is the foundational element of our universe.

You can never have enough songs about that.

aw thanks dl. definitely not saying i won't try my hand again if the muse moves me.

65. Girls: Let's all go out and be cool and party till dawn

66. Boys: Why won't you sleep with me? IDGI

despite my participation above I'm increasingly more interested in the proposed opposite thread, I'm not sure this one can ever get escape velocity from "lol rap/rock lyrics, but in stiff old guy language" material

― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, July 12, 2017 10:14 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There are other ways to frame responses here! They're all probably more boring on average but it's not impossible to do.

67. our music is more considered and thoughtful than that of our peers. we spend time over it like talented chefs - they serve it up as quick as possible for the masses.

68. "woke up this morning, decided to write a song that begins 'woke up this morning'"

68a. alternatively, did not wake up this morning because i couldn't get to sleep last night

69. If you see my mister/missus tell them I'm sick of their shit and I'm off. But phrase it nicely cos I don't want to come across like a ghosty chicken-shit prick

70. Here's my album cover. It has a picture of me and my name and maybe my guitar. I hope this intriguing combination of information and imagery seduces you into joining me on what'll definitely be a totally unique musical journey.

71. this is the name of a new genre. let me tell you a little bit about it. perhaps it has a dance.

72. i want to have sex with you, woman, however i'm not going to say it that overtly. let me instead celebrate your wonders and show how much i respect you, quietly and with dignity.

73. While I may seem like the inferior romantic option based on a variety of factors, the depth of my love for you more than offsets this.

Sub-category of 73: why do you treat me like I'm the inferior romantic option when I would [immense romantic gesture]

3. here's a list of all the modes of transport that might deliver me back to the arms of the one I love. but if they all should fail me, I am prepared to walk the entire way there

― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered)

captain beefheart did this with "my head is my only house unless it rains", but he also did "grow fins". i'd say there ought to be more songs that used the same central idea as "grow fins", but none of them would be as good as "grow fins", so why fucking bother?

74. My metaphorical paintbox is lacking bright colours

75. No matter how much I try to come across as a nice guy, you will think I'm a total cock AKA every Coldplay song ever.