What do you write songs about?

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What INSPIRES you?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

kitties

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

goths

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 7 October 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Evolution.

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

And gravity. People love gravity and evolution!

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Food.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Rocking.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Haha, I'm just kidding! I don't write songs.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

(seriously) nice countryside, arty movies (esp a. tarkovsky) jg ballard, jl borges, ann radcliffe. (i write instrumentals, not songs, though.)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

love, man!

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

horrendous

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

Also, maths, Elephants, boys that suck, crushes and lost rivers in various parts of London.

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

In my last band, almost all of my songs were about language.
Current band, it's a little more traditional and random, but a good general theme would be aging and maturing.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

chicks and outer space

― john clarkson, Friday, 7 October 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

robots, computers, the internet, drunk people

― 6335, Friday, 7 October 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

oh, and bees

― 6335, Friday, 7 October 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

christmases. fishes. bicycles. heads. explosions.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

our songs are generally about 1. oh girl I love you 2. oh girl you're completely nuts 3. oh the existential dread, the darkness paces round me like a wild mountain lion ready to eat 4. look dude you're off the rails.

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

images.

mostly involving some sort of love interest.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

sex dreams

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 7 October 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

I write songs about people who pretend to love each other but all the evidence points the other way. Also songs about travel and escapism and idealists who make decisions that most people would consider very bad ones based on their misguided idealism. Mostly I write songs about faulty logic.

I write songs by coming up with a scenario, often, and then trying to come up with the most ludicrous way of expressing that scenario. So if I want to write a song where someone is trying to convince another person that he has a plan for committing the perfect crime, I will have that person actually talk about making what they think is a deft play in contract bridge. But, and this is important, it can't be ludicrousness for its own sake. It has to be so ludicrous it comes back out as being sincere and real again, and it's only afterwards that you think, wait a minute...

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

yr mom

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

This is a pat and Stipean response, but I mostly write songs about the sound of their lyrics. There is also a subset of songs about how I am smarter than everyone else ("Hi Momus") and a couple of in-character semi-narratives; one from the POV of a dictator's younger brother.

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Pashmina, please direct me to your Tarkovsky-inspired song(s)! I would love to hear it/them.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 9 October 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

I feel compelled to point out that "Hi Momus" is not a song title - although that would have been awesome - but rather a response I envisioned to the sentence before it.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 9 October 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

I can't write lyrics, so I stick to instrumentals, or sometimes collaborate with someone who can write lyrics and sing. I can write prose, but the words part of my brain doesn't seem to be on speaking terms with the music part of it.

― acb (acb), Sunday, 9 October 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Can you please get to work writing "Hi Momus"?

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Hi Ned

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

i write songs about gay ram breeding and the quadriatic formula.

― Grizzard, Sunday, 13 November 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

my band currently has songs about, among other things
- scotland
- the internet
- sid meier's colonization
- summer
- space camp
- a piece of paper

― nervous (cochere), Sunday, 13 November 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

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