About This Blog

I write lyrics. I'm still learning how. I had a hit song, kind of, in 1991. I wrote it in half an hour, for a joke. You can see the details here. The songs I worked on all night never went anywhere. They nearly did, but not quite. So I finished school, got a job, forgot about lyrics. A few months ago I remembered. I ran into an amazing singer with bad lyrics, and started writing again. I googled around to see what I could learn about great lyricists and great lyrics, and didn't come up with much. This blog documents what I learned as I learned about lyrics. 

My baseline is the truly awful lyrics to my hit record, written with haste and humor. I don't remember them all, or exactly, but the chorus went something like this:

Rhythm is the basis, the basis of all life, no heartbreak that breaks it is allowed to survive, if you choose to ignore it, you will stumble and fall, rhythm is the basis, the basis of us all

Well, it was 17 years ago. And I was young.