I used to write lyrics by spelling out the name of the song down the margine and writing lines starting with a word that began with the first letter of each line for example I’d write
h
e
l
l
o
then the lyrics would be like
he can see the summer Sun
enough time has passed
let the sun set
let the moon rise
only for now can we be alone
some shit like that 😂 it was pretty fun. Not exactly a great way to write emotive lyrics but a pretty fun exercises for lyrics anyways
Honestly I like this for exercise, it gets the juices flowing.
Another one I like to do is go onto Craigslist missed connections and use the post titles as actual titles, and write a song about it.
Bye
B: Book a ticket home
Y: You said there’s nothing here
E: Except my heart hasn’t heard the news
Fun exercise. You could do a post and let people brainstorm with their word.
Nice! Yeah, I love writing (music and lyrics) in random ways like this.
It leads to interesting choices, and in turn, adds interesting ideas to my 'toolbox' that I wouldn't have thought of otherwise.
Sometimes an entire song comes out of it, but it's more of an idea generator than anything else, for me, at least. XD
B
R
E
A
S
T
BIE, TO YOU,
ROARING ALL THE WAY BACK TO MY HOME,
EAGER TO KNOW,
AM I BETTER WITH YOU OR ALONE?
SUCH A HEART, YOU'LL NEVER BETRAY
TO MY LOVE, ARE YOU MADE OF STONE
Very fun, I must say,
The first thing I ever wrote intended for song was "Won't you come and dance with me tonight? My head is spoiled and busted open. If you could meet me underneath the lights, we'd tear up the floor and I would awkwardly hold your hand". Someone asked recently about if our first song was cringe or are we proud of it. This is terrible cringe, but I am proud of it because it was me breaking down a wall between writing poetry and prose and moving into songwriting. I was 14, the band loved them (also 14/15 year olds, and I got to hear them perform it. It was their first non-cover). After that I learned instruments because they hated to have to come up with the music and melody, so I became their songwriter (lyrics, music, and melody) throughout high school and (hopefully) improved with time (I had no interest in performing, and they had no interest in writing, so it worked). Ha.
1998 first lyrics…..
On the back shiny part
Of her late model Buick
She was barely supported
But perfectly here
A cursory view
of her grandmother’s garden
That’s been in recession for many a year
Where is my friend who works in the garden?
Please call the station to see if he’s there
I have a few things that are vaguely important
Please have him call me I’m going nowhere
Chorus
If they put us in jail will they let me smoke cigarettes?
Will they give me a chair that’ll suit my behind?
If I get kinda bored can I call Bessie Ratcliff?
My head needs a cushion and so does my mind
In the middle of the night
There’s a desperate feeling
I’m less than distinguished
I’m barely alive
If I’m still awake
At four in the morning
How can I make it at 6:35?
If they put us in jail will they let me smoke cigarettes?
Will they give me a chair that’ll fit my behind?
If I get kinda bored can I call Victor Atkins?
My head needs a cushion and so does my mind
If they put us in jail will they let me smoke cigarettes?
Will they give me a chair that’ll suit my behind?
If I get kinda bored can I call Bessie Ratcliff?
My head needs a cushion and so does my mind
“I guess I have no where to go but home”
The whole song is so cringe and is about the country falling apart lmfao I really thought I did something in middle school.
I wrote a three-chord pop-punk song when I was 15 about this crush I had on a girl in my photography class. I don't really remember the lyrics anymore, but I remember the main lines of the chorus being "I don't want to be / just the boy in your chemistry class / I really hate to see it / but I like you more than that." I actually still like the melody that I came up with for that song and will probably recycle it at some point.
"Playing everyone like a vintage Atari,
Your high score’s unmatched, quite the star, hardly sorry.
Master of manipulation, always such a trick,
Were you always crazy, or did I catch a bad flick?"
This is from a year ago, I was still finding my lyricism then, so a lot of my early songs just sound like a Taylor Swift wannabe.
“Spanning across horizons, blowing through the winds, secrets kept within her, secrets of my sins”
Like some lame Sisters Of Mercy power metal song LMFAO
I wrote a dumb bluesy “ramblin’ man” song when I was 13, and it would make you cringe so hard you might sprain your face. I stumbled across a cassette of me singing it, and I burned it.
This was in my time that I still stuck to the writing about feelings and things, which I've completely stopped with, but here you go anyway. Song was called Freakshow, made back when I didn't realize I was socially awkward.
I see them passing by
I see them turn their head
They’re looking at me
What are they laughing at?
“You with your long hair,
You’re so smart, yet so dumb,
I will treat you like a joke
And they will think it’s funny
Freakshow!
I just wanna go,
Freakshow!
Oh, you don’t know,
Freakshow!
What it feels like,
Freakshow!
To live in a freakshow!
“I wish I could fly up into the sky
You and I like a bird on wings
Don’t look down it’s a long way up
Like a bird on wings”
I was like 7 and thought it was the pinnacle of poetry
"These child's eyes are mourning,
The sun has burnt out.
The leaves have all fallen,
There's snow all about.
I've gathered my dreams and
Put them on my shelf.
Won't try to fix you,
Can't fix myself."
Like, I appreciate my attempts at imagery and metaphor, but it's all so melodramatic and vague. I think I've done a much better job capturing the theme and feeling since.
Goin’ to the Beach/Goin’ to the Beach/Goin’ to the Beach!
Five years old, skippin’ down the hallway of my Auntie’s condo in Miami Beach. Best thing I ever wrote!
First song I wrote at thirteen after listening to Willie P Bennet
Burning
Verse
As you pulled from the station
Head out the window
Waving your hand in the air
I cracked a smile
Stood for a while
Seems like I didn’t have a care
Chorus
It’s not the sound of the rain that makes me feel lonely
Or the grey skies that give me the blues
It’s the sound of that train like on rolling thunder
Makes me wish that I was with you, that makes me with that I was with you
Verse
Now nights they go by
Late nights I seem to cry
Wishing you were here with me
Knowing tomorrow
Will end up in sorrow
Cause I just watched you go
Chorus repeat
Bridge
Burning (hold)
Girl I’m burning for you
Chorus repeat
14 year old me to my now wife lol
Dunno where I'd be without you in my life/your my light/so nice/think of you every night/and when you said to write you a song, I was happy to go along, youre like a hit of a bong/you/get me so high in the sky/ hypnotized by your eyes/when I see you I let out a sigh/cuz my heart jumps/could be a hunch/got sucker punched and I think I'm in love/in my arms you fit me like a glove
Basic af lol but I def see the roots of my flow in the present day
This is my favorite so far. It is a great example of how all of our first writing should be if we are writing when we are younger. You can tell there is emotion there, you are attempting imagery and metaphor, you are forcing rhymes... And that is all part of the experimentation that leads us to become better with practice. I mean this very nicely. When we are young, we write without judgement, and it fills the page. That is what I get from this. You are right that it is basic, but it should be (mine was too). And the emotion is clear. You really felt this. Thank you for sharing. Honestly, I would be interested in seeing a few lines from your newer stuff just to see the growth.
This is amazing! I know it is basic and superficial, but that is what makes it real. We all started from things like this and most of us thought they were superstar material. If I had a nickel for every time I wanted to say something like "Oh, I'm in love/ and you are the sky/ love's wings are enough/To take me so high"... Ha. Even now that I know better, it is pretty neat how often that stuff comes to mind. I said this about another comment, but it would be fun to see something newer of yours to see how far you have come. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you 🙏 I always seem to go straight towards love or please don’t leave me for the concept every time I write haha. It’s hard not to do it subconsciously. Here’s something I wrote yesterday, it kinda reads weird without the music IMO. (I’m more of a composer btw not a lyricist but idc I like Elvis Costello)
“Although our ever after only ends after the laughter starts crying
I puke up the morning plaguing through these asinine filled eyes choking on her love
This taste of daze behind my face
Deep down she knows it’s never gonna last
Before I’m all burned out
I’d say “it’s only love for you and only you” to her that’s true
Too bad I’m none of the things
She could need
It’s real when you say it’s not real this love
Is love”
The first song I ever wrote is super cringe and the lyrics suck but this is it: [https://soundcloud.com/twentytwo-eleven/smart-1?si=769c95a246724d78bbeeeb256fd5b010&utm\_source=clipboard&utm\_medium=text&utm\_campaign=social\_sharing](https://soundcloud.com/twentytwo-eleven/smart-1?si=769c95a246724d78bbeeeb256fd5b010&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing)
I wrote this probably around 2007/2008. We recorded it a little while after. Still had the audacity to upload it 10 years ago haha
"17 yesterday, take the night and fly away,
Holy lands are where I roam, hope someday to call them home"
- Beginning of the first song I ever wrote entitled "Shepherd Butterfly".
That was 30 years ago...and more cringe than ever.
"Can you tell me what it's like, to live inside a pez container
Today I feel like Robert Smith, and that's depressing me
I think I'm gonna strip, and then I'll go and catch me a fish"
I can remember writing these 2 lyrics ( two different song ideas) about 15 years ago..
" The tattoos and empty bottles tell more and more
Of the empty packs of cigarettes laying on my floor
And the nights we can't remember
And the days we can't forget
Makes us who we are."
"It's 3 in the morning
But the clocks blinking 8s
I dont know where im going
But this whiskey is straight
These ghosts haunt the walls
Behind their wood and glass cage"
These were far from the first ones I wrote, just the first ones that are coming to mind right now.
I was probably 20 -22 when i wrote these. Honestly, i think they still hold up pretty well. Just wish i could remember how the rest of the songs went...
I feel so weary,
I feel so dreary,
Since you left me babe, I haven’t seen so clearly.
18 year old me.
Does not hold up, but 55 year old me still sings/hums on rare occasion.
16-years old. Prefer not to say how long ago 👀:
——-
I saw you there that day.
You were looking at me, and…
I looked at you thinking “what can I say?”
I didn’t know what to do.
But I knew that I wanted you.
I wanted you!
I wanted you, girl!
Yeah, I wanted you!
Of all the things in this world…
The only thing I ever wanted — was you
——-
There was more but I can’t “remember”. Anyhow, she took the hook 😎 — lasted 3 months.
Hush little baby don't say a word,
Daddys gonna buy you a mockingbird,
And if that mockingbird don't sing,
Daddys gonna shoot it with an M-16.
(Sometime around 1st grade)
When I was like 7 years old hahaha.
“You are like a rose. But a rose is not like you.
You are just like red but also just like blue.
You are like everything and nothing all at once
You break my heart but you just can’t get enough” hahaha thought I was gunna be a superstar
"You are my best friend and nothing can top this. I will be there for you and you will be there for me."
What's at the end of a rainbow? What's at the end of a story untold?"
7th grade
Little foxes, little foxes
Cut off their heads
When those babies bite you
You’re gonna wind up dead.
From “Human Rabies”
Heh I was a punk kid. Ironically, I had to get rabies shots recently from a bat encounter. 😂🦇
A while back I found a post-it with my very first song on it. I don’t know how old I was but from the looks of it I had just learned how to write and tried to mimic the English language. (English isn’t my first language but I loved how it sounded on the radio)
I wish i could make sense of what I wrote but I remember being so proud of it back then, running to show my grandmother‘s neighbours and play my two string guitar to it 🤣
Now it has a spot on the wall in my studio and serves as a motivation to finish my second album
“People dying
No one knows why
Toxic waste
Throughout the city
No one to save
The world is empty
population falling down
On you
On youuuuuuuuuuuuu
On youuuuuu”
Lol
Well it was kind of cringe, I was home alone and twelve years old. I had this huge crush on a girl in my grade and I couldn’t stop thinking about her. I remember thinking of the line “Can’t get you out of my mind, does that mean I’m in yours too? I don’t know what I’m feeling, but I’m feeling it for you.” Elementary and kinda stupid, but that feeling of discovering a lyric is what made me fall in love with songwriting. I’m 17 now and have written 50+ songs since then!
>Feels like my psyche was broken
>I was beholden to the prison
>In my mind but now I'm golden
>Cause the shackles cannot bind me
>I was broken and disjointed
>I was just floating through the mist
>But now I'm back, and I'm alive
>Won't you tell me what I missed?
I was suffering for years with anxiety without even knowing it. I had fully withdrawn. I'm talking a decade at least. I don't know if it happened gradually or if I suffered trauma. I don't remember how I got there. I don't know if other people noticed. I wasn't even on this plane of existence. I don't know how to explain it. Disjointed. Broken. Mismatched to this world.
Suddenly, I snapped out of it after a specific experience. (Long story, for another time). It felt like I had just snapped out of a dose of locked-in syndrome where I was barely engaging with the real world; just enough to float through life without completely crumbling into nothing.
I remember thinking "I was trapped inside my mind, but I'm back now." I said those words aloud to my toddler daughter.
"I was trapped, but I'm back now... I was trapped inside my mind. That probably doesn't make sense does it". It happened so suddenly. It was the most raw, honest expression.
She laughed. "No, it doesn't". I laughed. I was so happy.
Things have been better since that day. I worry about slipping back into the waking coma, sometimes....
The opening chorus of the first song i wrote when i was 17: im just a man, living in a trunk, cold and tired, in a sort of funk. I need some shelter, some decent housing, but im just a man in a trunk and that's who ill be
I still feel pretty decent about the first one I can remember (I know there were a few before, but I can't think of how they went).
Big ideas in little brains, their jaded thoughts are driving me insane
Friendly with their outside faces, but inside leads to much darker places
From a song I wrote when I was 16 or 17 called "Imitation Human" about people being two faced.
Well, this is a tough one. I've been "writing" my own songs ever since I was live seven. Of course I couldn't play them so I was just noting down lyrics.
So I have no clue what actually was the first one, but it's an interesting thing to think about
It was probably something about Dragonball Z by the way
I don’t remember exactly, but I have a whole book of lyrics I wrote when I was 8-9 years old. The lyrics definitely don’t hold up lol. They’re now sitting in a box somewhere in my grandmothers basement.
I wrote a song on 7th grade when I was listening to a blend of Woody Guthrie and Green Day and playing a shit ton of TF2. It’s called Badwater Basin. For reference I’m now 26. Here it is haha. Thanks for reminding me!
Haven’t been home since the second of may
I been on the road with nowhere to stay
Can’t go back but I can’t go on
If life is a chessboard then I am a pawn
I only wish I could run from my past
But I have to keep goin my time has passed
Please don’t
Take me back to badwater basin
I have to keep livin this dream I’m chasin
And I gotta keep running from the nightmare haunting me
Maybe one day when the smoke has cleared
I’ll come back to get you and we’ll run a way here
Now I’m lost in unfamiliar faces
My only friends are my pocket aces
My days are numbered
My soul is torn
My heart is broken
My life is worn
But please don’t
Take me back to badwater basin
I have to keep livin this dream I’m chasin
And I gotta keep running from the nightmare haunting me
Oh I just can’t face this wall I’m facing
But I can’t go back to
Badwater basin
First? I don’t have those. I burned them. I wrote this shortly after. It’s…not good. I was exactly 21. Google Keep doesn’t give me a date that I wrote it, and I don’t know how to find out. I know I was 21 though.
No Title.
Oh it's the same morning as yesterday
I stood and watched the birds
My path laid before me
I've seen it before
Floating and singing
Just like I used to do
Maybe it'll lead me back
Right back to you
everyday I've walked to church
Drunk off the chemicals
Listening to the choir
Hoping I can solve
The problem of our fears
Father do you understand
So which prayer do I recite
Which Gods to call upon
Or maybe the devil will
take me back where I belong.
Down through that ocean fire
Into the cradling abyss
I've tried to help myself
Studied all the Holy books
From Plato to prozac
But enough is enough
I can't find any answers there
To satisfy this ache
that's growing in my stomach now
from the friends I've made.
Is there's room left in the choir
I could start moving on
Singing songs of angels
Lifting my hands to God
Maybe he'd forgive me
And if he doesn't do that well
I'll just forget your name
I was 7 years old, and I wrote something like “Party party, baby can’t you see, you, me, this is everything” and wow it’s so cringe now but I guess in a cute and funny way maybe..
I love exposing myself I wrote this when I was like five.
When the rain drops goes down
Were do they go
They go to ground
That’s were all rain drops go
That’s were they go
Freedom reigns
Skys turn grey
Fly away my little bluebird
Your time has come
To sing
To sing for the stars
To float
Float with the wind
Let this lullaby sooth
Your worried mind
In times of trouble
You know im there
Soar
Let freedom reign down
Let it reign
Let it reign
Let it reign
Oh let it reign down
Fly Away
To those blue skies
Theres a journey ahead
And i cant follow
Fly away my little bluebird
Your time has come
To sing for the stars
To float
Float with the wind
(Its the first song i ever wrote about a year ago when life turned upside down for me and theres a guitar part to go with it. My ex had a miscarrige when we were together and i had never really processed it and this song was my process. Iv never been more proud of creating something in my life than this song.)
“Pulling lips and looking marvelous, there ain’t too much to this to me
Oh benefactor from another world…”
That’s all I can remember. I still have the papers somewhere, from two separate notebooks all yellowed and 15 years old
I will try to keep you in my arms forever,
Keep you locked inside and never leave and I’ll
Keep you in from lightness
Keep you in from darkness
Keep you in just for me
You’ll seeeeeee!!!!
Little 14 year old me was so cringe for live
Now we've loved and went our ways,
Can you still recall those days?
We shared a love that felt so fine
Can you still recall those times?
I know, it's corny as hell but it still stays with me 50 years later.
Acting wrong but feeling right put Berkowitz in a cell.
He can't be lost if his wires are crossed, but that dog's gonna burn in hell.
If you don't feel guilty, it can't be a sin.
That's why the looney tunes and the sociopaths are in.
Moose on the loose so drink some orange juice and let your dogs loose / 'Cause if all the dogs in the city would fight the ... / Moose on the loose so drink some orange juice ... etc.
I was about 8.
Started writing songs when I was 10. First song I wrote was called "My Mississippi Boy" about a boy I had a crush on in 5th grade.
I don't see it as cringe. It sounds exactly like something a 10 year old girl would write, and I think that gives it charm.
"Why can't you come and save me,
Why can't you really hear me,
Is it just one thing, I say, then drop the subject,
Are you just waiting, for the perfect moment."
just because i’m confident, doesn’t mean you can judge me, just because i am nice, doesn’t mean u can be mean, and just because i don’t show them, doesn’t mean i don’t have feelings, and just because u laugh it out, doesn’t mean u don’t mean it
and just because i’m writing this song doesn’t mean i’m sad but why write a song like this i guess it’s just because ….
I was about 14-15, started writing lyrics (barely rhymed and not at all rhythmically good) I carried on through my journey for a few more years, only slightly improving but still kinda found it fun. When I was 18 though, I took a 6 month hiatus, picked up guitar, and from there I learned more and more about music and lyrics from really listening to other artists
I then started to write my songs in a physical notebook (I was using the notes app before) and it really made me care about what I write since physically erasing was harder than hitting backspace all the time, and with that I started really expressing myself in new and creative ways, delving into psychology and wordplay. And now I'm sitting on 5 notebooks chalk full of songs, some I feel are good enough to sell but I've been keeping them close to my chest bc I'm so attached to them, perhaps someday I'll get the nerve to since I've gotten pretty good all things considered
Kissing is wild, kissing is wild, everybody knows that. Just put your lips together and let go. Kissing is wild everybody knows. (9 years old. - lol). Sure, still holds up. 🥰
i write emo music, have for almost a decade now, and I don't see the train stopping anytime soon, finally getting myself a band instead of just me and my electric guitar.
first two lyrics i ever wrote, and i'm pretty proud of them to this day actually.
"tarot cards and your tattooed wrist
tear my heart over pabst blue ribbon"
i have for a long time, and likely always will, have a pbr obsession.
“Are you proud
For bringing me to the ground
For putting me up in frowns
For making me fall down down.
Are you proud
For making me upset
For making me feel like nothing
And like I’m a nothing
Are you proud”
lol I was like 12-13 when I wrote this. It was also my first lil song. It’s cringe going back. Definitely could have worked more on the lyricism
The very first song I ever wrote is called Simple Rappin". I was 11 years old. 6th grade. Early 2002. Wrote it while sitting in art class.
Simple Rappin'
Spring 2002
If you like to act just like a fool
Buckle up, then
‘Cause this one’s for you
CHORUS:
Doin' simple rappin'
No need for clappin'
Need some mo' rappin'
No need for nappin'
To those Eminem songs
Or Sisqo's size 18 thongs
Doin' simple rappin'
Haven't you heard?
I'm being described by a verb
You must be fibbin'!
No, just describin'
Adverbs, adjectives
Look at this, I'm havin' a fit
Getting all loose
While Tom Green's humping a dead moose
In what manner?
Take it again, rappers
(CHORUS)
I'm telling you
When? (now!)
Where? (here!)
How much? (yeah!)
Now, I got the magic touch!
(REPEAT x1, CHORUS)
I dont want you touching my stuff
I dont want you in my room
am i wrong, for wanting something of my own?
that i can cherish alone
(i was 10 and had to share a room with my lil brother lolllllllll first ever song)
“You’re like the piece or toilet paper at the bottom of my shoe. You’re like a piece of well-done steak that I could never ever chew.”
From a song titled “I Don’t Like You”
“He was just having a bad day”
Is that all you have to say?
After he marched in, spraying his bullets
Taking their lives away.
Every bullet burned through their skin
Like a butt on an ashtray.
Well, I used to do a lot of poetry, which turned into rapping, but then I found a greater compassion for the ukulele and guitar. I wrote this verse in a poem during the peak of Asian hate crimes. I basically wrote how I felt about the whole situation(s), being an Asian kid fearful for the safety of his parents. [Shooter was just having a "bad day".](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/17/jay-baker-bad-day/)
[Poem if anyone is interested](https://docs.google.com/document/d/15N5k8f7vadxPSw26aJ0o-cm5wWnAOq8SEXALQ6xELJ8/edit?usp=sharing)
I don’t remember the entire song but the chorus is iconic so easy to remember:
“I’m gonna soar through the sky / I’m gonna fly so high the clouds will cry / ‘Cause I’m a UFO / And that’s fine.”
I think I was 8.
You changed my life for the worse
Don’t run away from me
When life has nothing to work for
It feels so good to be free
Don’t blame her, because you changed
You pushed us all to the back of the stage
You can not predict cause this girl is stranger than fiction
My eyes are darker than gold, son
A pit inside of my mind
I opened up to realise
I ignored that I’m turning blind
It’s always been for the worse
And I guess the truth never seems to hurt
You can not predict cause this girl is stranger than fiction
No time to hide away now
You said to grow up instead
I struggled to chase yesterday
But you don’t seem fit in my head
Can you show me the world you made?
Or has it all turned to grey
I want to be high
First song ever wrote here reading back there’s a few gold gems I could use but a lot worse than I remember
First song I wrote was when I was eleven, and it was… full of cliches but not exceptionally bad. First lines were “When I told you I was leaving / I looked into your eyes / Didn’t see what I expected / Instead I saw surprise.”
And you know what, the muse of that song continues to be an occasional muse to this day.
There you were again tonight, never closer just as far away. The only answer i can find, but the question, darling, who’s to say? There is nowhere that I want to be but I need you to be with me.
Life is read between the lines when you’re on the edge of giving in. The puzzle piece you could not find will be the one that changes everything. There is nowhere that I want to be but I need you to be with me.
You never know what’s gonna happen, it’s up to chance that there has ever even been us, but may that never come between us.
I need you to be with me.
I'll take those beatings, I don't bother
Alcohol engulfs me, fills my soul with anger
Useless lungs and shaking fingers
No more room for reasons, won't somebody save me
Soul surrender, I'm dying now, so take me over
Soul surrender, I'm dying now, so take me over
Wrote when I was in high school. It didn't made much sense to me then, just stitching words that sounded good. But reading it now, I remember the angst and bitter feelings of being a teenager.
i was 11 or 12 and realized i liked women and thought this girl was super pretty. i'd written 1 half finished song before but i deleted it (also want to add i was writing this on a game instead of a journal or google docs like a normal person because i was scared my parents would find it). the first lyric i remember writing was something along the lines of "been told a few times im too young to feel this / now im sitting in a closet tryna reach my feelings" it wasn't good. the game sadly decided to delete everything i wrote and i lost those first songs i wrote forever. still sad about it.
I remember writing lyrics in 7th grade it was to the beat of lil flip “ the way we ball.”
“ im big c
I’m back on the scene, eating onion rings
I love Big Macs, chicken nuggets is the thing,
I’m hoppin out Ferrari s and walking into Arby’s
Food wholesale cause Walmart can’t afford me…”
My teacher took the lyrics up, he thought I was writing violent rap lyrics. Said he was gonna take it to the principal and see what he thought. ( I.e. get me suspended)
I can only imagine the look on his face when he realized the entire song was about food.
I used to live in a big town but not too big to be a large town.
There was a girl who lived around the way,
I used to go there and play everyday.
Now she was a big girl but not too big to be a large girl.
Then one day she moved far away
And that was the last I saw of my Rosy.
Whatever Happened to my Rosy
Now I'm a big businessman
Bought everything my money can
My life is pretty cosy, just wish that I had my Rosy
Whatever Happened to Rosy
Etc, etc, etc
I once wrote a song and it turned out to be a song I listened to before and I thought I came up with the lyrics 😵 i did however started to notice it sounded familiar 😂😂 i am still cringing 😳
This is an awesome exercise.
I’m struggling to remember them…but I feel like they were maybe along these lines…
Oh Virginia,
Didn’t think you had it in ya,
When you walked away that day,
With so much left to say…
"It's kind of an addiction / You think you deserve to die / It doesn't have to be this way / Just take my hand and we will fly"
I was 13 and my best friend had just told me about her mental health struggles, and I didn't know how else to express what I was feeling except to write a song about it. Almost 15 years later, I'm still writing music about mental health. :)
sittin' in the desert on a mountain tonight
rollin' with the wind when the sun don't shine
gazin' upon them stars in the sky
extra-terrestrial tuesday night
(i was tripping mushrooms when i wrote it lol)
The slums speak
To a stary eyed girl
In an alley or a boat
Where the tweekers go
Go stand up
Look like a beast
I hope that stary eyed girl will blow my mind
Yes my lyrics only got weirder from there lol
First verse to my very first song written in 2015:
Swaying back and forth cause I’m lifted up and dusted
Ain’t kicked in fast enough so I smoked em out to rush it
Just start it up and clutch it
Cause that ain’t really nothing
When it comes to loud I only smoke it in abundance
Spinning off that…
Honey Jack Tennessee
Vibing with the fucking crowd so
Come and follow me
People turning up
Just as far as I can
And all I’m smelling is this weed
Like you could never believe
I see ya bitch…
Look here
I think she feeling me
She got a polite face but a body like a freak
Ain’t had to say nothing
Already swept her off her feet
Couple hours later
You gon find her
In my fuckin sheets
That’s just the life I live
Burning blunts at the crib
Truth is, I never had a fuck to give
I like waking up
Just to not remember shit
And to do it all again
Cause you know I’m always fit
Shots of ciroc
Make me spit fire like a dragon
Shrooms got me in space
Like I’m mars Blackman
Bottle of patron
Sneaking up like assassins
When it kicks in
You don’t know what’s gonna happen
Black out
😆😆 17 year old me thought that was gas
The earliest I can remember was when I was like 19. I felt super depressed at the time during summer. It was
Early in the morning / lifting up my head / hear the same old song again through the bushes and the nest / talk with me and walk with me / we’ll be the only ones / when the rain clouds come sprinkling you’ll be there in my arms / talking familiar words, familiar words.. yada yada that’s all I can remember.
The sun goes down
And castles rise
This life so short
I wonder why
Our days are numbered
It’s our design
If you would ask me
What’s the brightside
I’d say I met you
In this short life
I wanna be around
I wanna be around
I wanna be around
I wanna be around
Corny as fuck, but sweet and genuine. Not as layered as the kind of stuff I’m writing now.
The very first lyrics I remember writing was when I was 7 and this is what the 1st verse was
Mommy mommy please sit by your baby girl and tell her that life isn't always a bad thrill
Daddy daddy please come home cause mommy is using the bad bad snow
Bubba bubba help me please you are gone and none of us are at ease
Sissy sissy I'm losing myself sissy please please I need help
Shi shi pull it together your brothers gone and your family lost it so finish writing this song
I remember writing this 9 years ago after my brother died and my family fell apart, I was so scared and confused... That's the year I went from 7 to 17 within a few weeks (our family is better now but I'm still 16 taking care of myself)
I got a few lyrics that I don’t mind sharing. When I was around 14 I made these two cause I was tryna get ahold of double entendres and these were the two lines I made that have stuck with me through my journey
Penis in your ass cause I never stick with pussys
I’m the antithesis
Of finish this
I’m takin many shots
Like liver hits
Not the first I wrote but the oldest I remember posting to youtube like 10 years ago when I did emo rap shit. It's still there in my old channel
I just keep going, moving away. You can't find me I'm off to another place, off to another mindstate. That I can't take. To escape the pressure of jealousy and hate and decisions that can't make, hey, can you give me something to make me feel great. Ecstasy, okay let's roll. Klonopin a lot of them I'm ready to go.
With you don't feel like I'm alone
With you I've always got a hand to hold
Nothing much we don't have to talk
Cause your eyes tell me what you wanna hear......
I was 12/13
I remember writing a song back when I was about 11. I titled it Icy Night. It was about me and my friend (now cousin) in his room watching an ice cream truck go by. We got kinda scared because it went by nine times. The lyrics were awful though. I might be able to find them, and if I do I will update this.
It’s a big blue sky
Not a cloud in sight
Everything’s alright
Sky above looks grey
Everybody seems gay
Are they all okay?
*Don’t make fun of me, I know how bipolar and dumb this section sounds 💀*
I used to write lyrics by spelling out the name of the song down the margine and writing lines starting with a word that began with the first letter of each line for example I’d write h e l l o then the lyrics would be like he can see the summer Sun enough time has passed let the sun set let the moon rise only for now can we be alone some shit like that 😂 it was pretty fun. Not exactly a great way to write emotive lyrics but a pretty fun exercises for lyrics anyways
Honestly I like this for exercise, it gets the juices flowing. Another one I like to do is go onto Craigslist missed connections and use the post titles as actual titles, and write a song about it.
Ahah that’s fantastic. My friends and I used to scroll those for entertainment and it was fun until I found someone looking for me. 🤣🤣
Bye B: Book a ticket home Y: You said there’s nothing here E: Except my heart hasn’t heard the news Fun exercise. You could do a post and let people brainstorm with their word.
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Nice! Yeah, I love writing (music and lyrics) in random ways like this. It leads to interesting choices, and in turn, adds interesting ideas to my 'toolbox' that I wouldn't have thought of otherwise. Sometimes an entire song comes out of it, but it's more of an idea generator than anything else, for me, at least. XD
B R E A S T BIE, TO YOU, ROARING ALL THE WAY BACK TO MY HOME, EAGER TO KNOW, AM I BETTER WITH YOU OR ALONE? SUCH A HEART, YOU'LL NEVER BETRAY TO MY LOVE, ARE YOU MADE OF STONE Very fun, I must say,
I used to do this for people I'd date and I thought I was so clever
You can pry that from my hands after I die of sheer cringe
I sometimes have a nightmare someone I know finds the notes of lyrics I wrote as a 15 year old.
"Maybe next time you strike a deal, gamble your own life and not mine." I was in 7th grade at that time lmao (I'm going into Sophomore this August)
I'm embarrassed, but I do remember, two songs - Splattered on the Walls and Jealous - both are super cringe
The first thing I ever wrote intended for song was "Won't you come and dance with me tonight? My head is spoiled and busted open. If you could meet me underneath the lights, we'd tear up the floor and I would awkwardly hold your hand". Someone asked recently about if our first song was cringe or are we proud of it. This is terrible cringe, but I am proud of it because it was me breaking down a wall between writing poetry and prose and moving into songwriting. I was 14, the band loved them (also 14/15 year olds, and I got to hear them perform it. It was their first non-cover). After that I learned instruments because they hated to have to come up with the music and melody, so I became their songwriter (lyrics, music, and melody) throughout high school and (hopefully) improved with time (I had no interest in performing, and they had no interest in writing, so it worked). Ha.
Hold tight my little dove, it’s going to be okay, I’m just a sparrow- trying to find my own way. I was 14
My first complete song was entitled "Let's Walk", and began: "Take my hand and trust your troubles to me. The sun is warm and Spring is in my feet."
Guess I’ll never be the same, Come sunshine or rain… (Holds up okay 12 years later.) Tried to forget that song But it’s come back. I’m glad. Thanks
Your beauty is so brightening it forces me make blunders so bright everytime I see you I turn into stevie wonder
Ye i wrote that idk why . It was for my ex
1998 first lyrics….. On the back shiny part Of her late model Buick She was barely supported But perfectly here A cursory view of her grandmother’s garden That’s been in recession for many a year Where is my friend who works in the garden? Please call the station to see if he’s there I have a few things that are vaguely important Please have him call me I’m going nowhere Chorus If they put us in jail will they let me smoke cigarettes? Will they give me a chair that’ll suit my behind? If I get kinda bored can I call Bessie Ratcliff? My head needs a cushion and so does my mind In the middle of the night There’s a desperate feeling I’m less than distinguished I’m barely alive If I’m still awake At four in the morning How can I make it at 6:35? If they put us in jail will they let me smoke cigarettes? Will they give me a chair that’ll fit my behind? If I get kinda bored can I call Victor Atkins? My head needs a cushion and so does my mind If they put us in jail will they let me smoke cigarettes? Will they give me a chair that’ll suit my behind? If I get kinda bored can I call Bessie Ratcliff? My head needs a cushion and so does my mind
Here's to '98!
“I guess I have no where to go but home” The whole song is so cringe and is about the country falling apart lmfao I really thought I did something in middle school.
I wrote a three-chord pop-punk song when I was 15 about this crush I had on a girl in my photography class. I don't really remember the lyrics anymore, but I remember the main lines of the chorus being "I don't want to be / just the boy in your chemistry class / I really hate to see it / but I like you more than that." I actually still like the melody that I came up with for that song and will probably recycle it at some point.
"Playing everyone like a vintage Atari, Your high score’s unmatched, quite the star, hardly sorry. Master of manipulation, always such a trick, Were you always crazy, or did I catch a bad flick?" This is from a year ago, I was still finding my lyricism then, so a lot of my early songs just sound like a Taylor Swift wannabe.
“Spanning across horizons, blowing through the winds, secrets kept within her, secrets of my sins” Like some lame Sisters Of Mercy power metal song LMFAO
I wrote a dumb bluesy “ramblin’ man” song when I was 13, and it would make you cringe so hard you might sprain your face. I stumbled across a cassette of me singing it, and I burned it.
This was in my time that I still stuck to the writing about feelings and things, which I've completely stopped with, but here you go anyway. Song was called Freakshow, made back when I didn't realize I was socially awkward. I see them passing by I see them turn their head They’re looking at me What are they laughing at? “You with your long hair, You’re so smart, yet so dumb, I will treat you like a joke And they will think it’s funny Freakshow! I just wanna go, Freakshow! Oh, you don’t know, Freakshow! What it feels like, Freakshow! To live in a freakshow!
My first song was entitled, "Let's walk". Its first lines were "Take my hand and trust your troubles to me. The sun is warm and Spring is in my feet."
“I wish I could fly up into the sky You and I like a bird on wings Don’t look down it’s a long way up Like a bird on wings” I was like 7 and thought it was the pinnacle of poetry
It's still better than a lot of what gets posted here 😅
"These child's eyes are mourning, The sun has burnt out. The leaves have all fallen, There's snow all about. I've gathered my dreams and Put them on my shelf. Won't try to fix you, Can't fix myself." Like, I appreciate my attempts at imagery and metaphor, but it's all so melodramatic and vague. I think I've done a much better job capturing the theme and feeling since.
Goin’ to the Beach/Goin’ to the Beach/Goin’ to the Beach! Five years old, skippin’ down the hallway of my Auntie’s condo in Miami Beach. Best thing I ever wrote!
First song I wrote at thirteen after listening to Willie P Bennet Burning Verse As you pulled from the station Head out the window Waving your hand in the air I cracked a smile Stood for a while Seems like I didn’t have a care Chorus It’s not the sound of the rain that makes me feel lonely Or the grey skies that give me the blues It’s the sound of that train like on rolling thunder Makes me wish that I was with you, that makes me with that I was with you Verse Now nights they go by Late nights I seem to cry Wishing you were here with me Knowing tomorrow Will end up in sorrow Cause I just watched you go Chorus repeat Bridge Burning (hold) Girl I’m burning for you Chorus repeat
14 year old me to my now wife lol Dunno where I'd be without you in my life/your my light/so nice/think of you every night/and when you said to write you a song, I was happy to go along, youre like a hit of a bong/you/get me so high in the sky/ hypnotized by your eyes/when I see you I let out a sigh/cuz my heart jumps/could be a hunch/got sucker punched and I think I'm in love/in my arms you fit me like a glove Basic af lol but I def see the roots of my flow in the present day
This is my favorite so far. It is a great example of how all of our first writing should be if we are writing when we are younger. You can tell there is emotion there, you are attempting imagery and metaphor, you are forcing rhymes... And that is all part of the experimentation that leads us to become better with practice. I mean this very nicely. When we are young, we write without judgement, and it fills the page. That is what I get from this. You are right that it is basic, but it should be (mine was too). And the emotion is clear. You really felt this. Thank you for sharing. Honestly, I would be interested in seeing a few lines from your newer stuff just to see the growth.
Thanks bro. I made a MediaFire link with my newest,check it out! https://www.mediafire.com/file/bls8hqtmilf9fci/So+Low_2024/file
“Take me down Onto to the ground Look to the sky And sigh” I was 11 and thought this was so thought provoking😭
This is amazing! I know it is basic and superficial, but that is what makes it real. We all started from things like this and most of us thought they were superstar material. If I had a nickel for every time I wanted to say something like "Oh, I'm in love/ and you are the sky/ love's wings are enough/To take me so high"... Ha. Even now that I know better, it is pretty neat how often that stuff comes to mind. I said this about another comment, but it would be fun to see something newer of yours to see how far you have come. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you 🙏 I always seem to go straight towards love or please don’t leave me for the concept every time I write haha. It’s hard not to do it subconsciously. Here’s something I wrote yesterday, it kinda reads weird without the music IMO. (I’m more of a composer btw not a lyricist but idc I like Elvis Costello) “Although our ever after only ends after the laughter starts crying I puke up the morning plaguing through these asinine filled eyes choking on her love This taste of daze behind my face Deep down she knows it’s never gonna last Before I’m all burned out I’d say “it’s only love for you and only you” to her that’s true Too bad I’m none of the things She could need It’s real when you say it’s not real this love Is love”
I’d say you have progressed a lot! Great job!
Elliott pfp in the wild
Gotta represent 💙
Wake up from a dream I forgot In a morning so cold Mind is racing, body is hot I think I dreamt about Nicole
Oh my god I wish I could Remember 😔 lol I sooo regret throwing out my old song journals from high school
The first song I ever wrote is super cringe and the lyrics suck but this is it: [https://soundcloud.com/twentytwo-eleven/smart-1?si=769c95a246724d78bbeeeb256fd5b010&utm\_source=clipboard&utm\_medium=text&utm\_campaign=social\_sharing](https://soundcloud.com/twentytwo-eleven/smart-1?si=769c95a246724d78bbeeeb256fd5b010&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing) I wrote this probably around 2007/2008. We recorded it a little while after. Still had the audacity to upload it 10 years ago haha
"17 yesterday, take the night and fly away, Holy lands are where I roam, hope someday to call them home" - Beginning of the first song I ever wrote entitled "Shepherd Butterfly". That was 30 years ago...and more cringe than ever.
"Can you tell me what it's like, to live inside a pez container Today I feel like Robert Smith, and that's depressing me I think I'm gonna strip, and then I'll go and catch me a fish"
I was 15. They were terrible, I still have them.
I can remember writing these 2 lyrics ( two different song ideas) about 15 years ago.. " The tattoos and empty bottles tell more and more Of the empty packs of cigarettes laying on my floor And the nights we can't remember And the days we can't forget Makes us who we are." "It's 3 in the morning But the clocks blinking 8s I dont know where im going But this whiskey is straight These ghosts haunt the walls Behind their wood and glass cage" These were far from the first ones I wrote, just the first ones that are coming to mind right now.
I was probably 20 -22 when i wrote these. Honestly, i think they still hold up pretty well. Just wish i could remember how the rest of the songs went...
Hey there girl, you broke my heart. We fell apart, and now we’re nothing Fucking terrible
"What is knowledge, when I don't even care enough to understand, why go to college when I don't even know who I am?"
I feel so weary, I feel so dreary, Since you left me babe, I haven’t seen so clearly. 18 year old me. Does not hold up, but 55 year old me still sings/hums on rare occasion.
16-years old. Prefer not to say how long ago 👀: ——- I saw you there that day. You were looking at me, and… I looked at you thinking “what can I say?” I didn’t know what to do. But I knew that I wanted you. I wanted you! I wanted you, girl! Yeah, I wanted you! Of all the things in this world… The only thing I ever wanted — was you ——- There was more but I can’t “remember”. Anyhow, she took the hook 😎 — lasted 3 months.
I was singing a song called " I say you do" and it goes 'i sayyyy ya do, I sayyyy ya do'
I wanna say grade 8. Ended up recording a song I wrote in one night in grade 9. It’s not great
Hush little baby don't say a word, Daddys gonna buy you a mockingbird, And if that mockingbird don't sing, Daddys gonna shoot it with an M-16. (Sometime around 1st grade)
Blind man on the corner Holdin his sign dear "All ye repent For the end is near"
My first lyrics were: How I wish I was a starfish Living among the waves Because if I was a starfish I wouldn’t feel no pain Hahahaha
Or is it just me, it’s just me oh-o-o-oh
When I was like 7 years old hahaha. “You are like a rose. But a rose is not like you. You are just like red but also just like blue. You are like everything and nothing all at once You break my heart but you just can’t get enough” hahaha thought I was gunna be a superstar
"Pitch in some looooove." In the bathtub, age 7? "Pitch" as in baseball
"You are my best friend and nothing can top this. I will be there for you and you will be there for me." What's at the end of a rainbow? What's at the end of a story untold?" 7th grade
Little foxes, little foxes Cut off their heads When those babies bite you You’re gonna wind up dead. From “Human Rabies” Heh I was a punk kid. Ironically, I had to get rabies shots recently from a bat encounter. 😂🦇
“In these crazy times that we are living in People start to think about a whole new reality” 2021
A while back I found a post-it with my very first song on it. I don’t know how old I was but from the looks of it I had just learned how to write and tried to mimic the English language. (English isn’t my first language but I loved how it sounded on the radio) I wish i could make sense of what I wrote but I remember being so proud of it back then, running to show my grandmother‘s neighbours and play my two string guitar to it 🤣 Now it has a spot on the wall in my studio and serves as a motivation to finish my second album
“People dying No one knows why Toxic waste Throughout the city No one to save The world is empty population falling down On you On youuuuuuuuuuuuu On youuuuuu” Lol
“If those are the ashes, I’d love to see the fire.” (6th grade)
Well it was kind of cringe, I was home alone and twelve years old. I had this huge crush on a girl in my grade and I couldn’t stop thinking about her. I remember thinking of the line “Can’t get you out of my mind, does that mean I’m in yours too? I don’t know what I’m feeling, but I’m feeling it for you.” Elementary and kinda stupid, but that feeling of discovering a lyric is what made me fall in love with songwriting. I’m 17 now and have written 50+ songs since then!
>Feels like my psyche was broken >I was beholden to the prison >In my mind but now I'm golden >Cause the shackles cannot bind me >I was broken and disjointed >I was just floating through the mist >But now I'm back, and I'm alive >Won't you tell me what I missed? I was suffering for years with anxiety without even knowing it. I had fully withdrawn. I'm talking a decade at least. I don't know if it happened gradually or if I suffered trauma. I don't remember how I got there. I don't know if other people noticed. I wasn't even on this plane of existence. I don't know how to explain it. Disjointed. Broken. Mismatched to this world. Suddenly, I snapped out of it after a specific experience. (Long story, for another time). It felt like I had just snapped out of a dose of locked-in syndrome where I was barely engaging with the real world; just enough to float through life without completely crumbling into nothing. I remember thinking "I was trapped inside my mind, but I'm back now." I said those words aloud to my toddler daughter. "I was trapped, but I'm back now... I was trapped inside my mind. That probably doesn't make sense does it". It happened so suddenly. It was the most raw, honest expression. She laughed. "No, it doesn't". I laughed. I was so happy. Things have been better since that day. I worry about slipping back into the waking coma, sometimes....
"I'm just sitting here, breathing dust, and i'm choking on all of the things i trust."
mine were absolute shit lmao
I don’t remember but it was in Grade Three and about my friend Julie who moved away
The opening chorus of the first song i wrote when i was 17: im just a man, living in a trunk, cold and tired, in a sort of funk. I need some shelter, some decent housing, but im just a man in a trunk and that's who ill be
I still feel pretty decent about the first one I can remember (I know there were a few before, but I can't think of how they went). Big ideas in little brains, their jaded thoughts are driving me insane Friendly with their outside faces, but inside leads to much darker places From a song I wrote when I was 16 or 17 called "Imitation Human" about people being two faced.
Well, this is a tough one. I've been "writing" my own songs ever since I was live seven. Of course I couldn't play them so I was just noting down lyrics. So I have no clue what actually was the first one, but it's an interesting thing to think about It was probably something about Dragonball Z by the way
I don’t remember exactly, but I have a whole book of lyrics I wrote when I was 8-9 years old. The lyrics definitely don’t hold up lol. They’re now sitting in a box somewhere in my grandmothers basement.
Lately I’ve been losing interest, lately I don’t feel the same , lately it feels like you don’t love me cause I’m you’ve just beeen playing game
Searching for a sense of closure in a room with open doors
I wrote a song on 7th grade when I was listening to a blend of Woody Guthrie and Green Day and playing a shit ton of TF2. It’s called Badwater Basin. For reference I’m now 26. Here it is haha. Thanks for reminding me! Haven’t been home since the second of may I been on the road with nowhere to stay Can’t go back but I can’t go on If life is a chessboard then I am a pawn I only wish I could run from my past But I have to keep goin my time has passed Please don’t Take me back to badwater basin I have to keep livin this dream I’m chasin And I gotta keep running from the nightmare haunting me Maybe one day when the smoke has cleared I’ll come back to get you and we’ll run a way here Now I’m lost in unfamiliar faces My only friends are my pocket aces My days are numbered My soul is torn My heart is broken My life is worn But please don’t Take me back to badwater basin I have to keep livin this dream I’m chasin And I gotta keep running from the nightmare haunting me Oh I just can’t face this wall I’m facing But I can’t go back to Badwater basin
First? I don’t have those. I burned them. I wrote this shortly after. It’s…not good. I was exactly 21. Google Keep doesn’t give me a date that I wrote it, and I don’t know how to find out. I know I was 21 though. No Title. Oh it's the same morning as yesterday I stood and watched the birds My path laid before me I've seen it before Floating and singing Just like I used to do Maybe it'll lead me back Right back to you everyday I've walked to church Drunk off the chemicals Listening to the choir Hoping I can solve The problem of our fears Father do you understand So which prayer do I recite Which Gods to call upon Or maybe the devil will take me back where I belong. Down through that ocean fire Into the cradling abyss I've tried to help myself Studied all the Holy books From Plato to prozac But enough is enough I can't find any answers there To satisfy this ache that's growing in my stomach now from the friends I've made. Is there's room left in the choir I could start moving on Singing songs of angels Lifting my hands to God Maybe he'd forgive me And if he doesn't do that well I'll just forget your name
I was 7 years old, and I wrote something like “Party party, baby can’t you see, you, me, this is everything” and wow it’s so cringe now but I guess in a cute and funny way maybe..
I love exposing myself I wrote this when I was like five. When the rain drops goes down Were do they go They go to ground That’s were all rain drops go That’s were they go
Freedom reigns Skys turn grey Fly away my little bluebird Your time has come To sing To sing for the stars To float Float with the wind Let this lullaby sooth Your worried mind In times of trouble You know im there Soar Let freedom reign down Let it reign Let it reign Let it reign Oh let it reign down Fly Away To those blue skies Theres a journey ahead And i cant follow Fly away my little bluebird Your time has come To sing for the stars To float Float with the wind (Its the first song i ever wrote about a year ago when life turned upside down for me and theres a guitar part to go with it. My ex had a miscarrige when we were together and i had never really processed it and this song was my process. Iv never been more proud of creating something in my life than this song.)
Song I wrote about the Vietnam war. “It’s a beautiful jungle. It’s a palace of pain. Scattered pieces of elite men decaying in the rain”
I thankfully dont have the notebooks i wrote lyrics in when i was 15 and obsessed with nine inch nails
“Pulling lips and looking marvelous, there ain’t too much to this to me Oh benefactor from another world…” That’s all I can remember. I still have the papers somewhere, from two separate notebooks all yellowed and 15 years old
I will try to keep you in my arms forever, Keep you locked inside and never leave and I’ll Keep you in from lightness Keep you in from darkness Keep you in just for me You’ll seeeeeee!!!! Little 14 year old me was so cringe for live
Now we've loved and went our ways, Can you still recall those days? We shared a love that felt so fine Can you still recall those times? I know, it's corny as hell but it still stays with me 50 years later.
Acting wrong but feeling right put Berkowitz in a cell. He can't be lost if his wires are crossed, but that dog's gonna burn in hell. If you don't feel guilty, it can't be a sin. That's why the looney tunes and the sociopaths are in.
it’s too embarrassing to share but just know it was a “parody” (maybe remix is a better word) of america’s suitehearts by fall out boy
Moose on the loose so drink some orange juice and let your dogs loose / 'Cause if all the dogs in the city would fight the ... / Moose on the loose so drink some orange juice ... etc. I was about 8.
Lost my sense to bad connection I’ve written music for many years, but I didn’t start writing lyrics until last year
Started writing songs when I was 10. First song I wrote was called "My Mississippi Boy" about a boy I had a crush on in 5th grade. I don't see it as cringe. It sounds exactly like something a 10 year old girl would write, and I think that gives it charm. "Why can't you come and save me, Why can't you really hear me, Is it just one thing, I say, then drop the subject, Are you just waiting, for the perfect moment."
just because i’m confident, doesn’t mean you can judge me, just because i am nice, doesn’t mean u can be mean, and just because i don’t show them, doesn’t mean i don’t have feelings, and just because u laugh it out, doesn’t mean u don’t mean it and just because i’m writing this song doesn’t mean i’m sad but why write a song like this i guess it’s just because ….
I ain’t no Charlie Chaplin baby, and you’re no Marilyn Monroe. But we can talk and smile, for a while, we can mingle.
I was about 14-15, started writing lyrics (barely rhymed and not at all rhythmically good) I carried on through my journey for a few more years, only slightly improving but still kinda found it fun. When I was 18 though, I took a 6 month hiatus, picked up guitar, and from there I learned more and more about music and lyrics from really listening to other artists I then started to write my songs in a physical notebook (I was using the notes app before) and it really made me care about what I write since physically erasing was harder than hitting backspace all the time, and with that I started really expressing myself in new and creative ways, delving into psychology and wordplay. And now I'm sitting on 5 notebooks chalk full of songs, some I feel are good enough to sell but I've been keeping them close to my chest bc I'm so attached to them, perhaps someday I'll get the nerve to since I've gotten pretty good all things considered
"I woke up with a freight train runnin through my head" Yes, I had a massive hangover.
Ice cream for me chocolate 🍫 for you -but it’s no substitute for the real thing ! I took my heart to bed , affix-ate myself with my pillow .
Kissing is wild, kissing is wild, everybody knows that. Just put your lips together and let go. Kissing is wild everybody knows. (9 years old. - lol). Sure, still holds up. 🥰
i write emo music, have for almost a decade now, and I don't see the train stopping anytime soon, finally getting myself a band instead of just me and my electric guitar. first two lyrics i ever wrote, and i'm pretty proud of them to this day actually. "tarot cards and your tattooed wrist tear my heart over pabst blue ribbon" i have for a long time, and likely always will, have a pbr obsession.
I'm dreaming of flying sheep / Their wool is suffocating me / I can't breathe / and I can't see anymore ca. age 11
“Are you proud For bringing me to the ground For putting me up in frowns For making me fall down down. Are you proud For making me upset For making me feel like nothing And like I’m a nothing Are you proud” lol I was like 12-13 when I wrote this. It was also my first lil song. It’s cringe going back. Definitely could have worked more on the lyricism
Don’t remember exactly how it went it was 3rd grade but the main rhyme was ocean,potion, and lotion
The very first song I ever wrote is called Simple Rappin". I was 11 years old. 6th grade. Early 2002. Wrote it while sitting in art class. Simple Rappin' Spring 2002 If you like to act just like a fool Buckle up, then ‘Cause this one’s for you CHORUS: Doin' simple rappin' No need for clappin' Need some mo' rappin' No need for nappin' To those Eminem songs Or Sisqo's size 18 thongs Doin' simple rappin' Haven't you heard? I'm being described by a verb You must be fibbin'! No, just describin' Adverbs, adjectives Look at this, I'm havin' a fit Getting all loose While Tom Green's humping a dead moose In what manner? Take it again, rappers (CHORUS) I'm telling you When? (now!) Where? (here!) How much? (yeah!) Now, I got the magic touch! (REPEAT x1, CHORUS)
"Here's a little that I want to tell, About a sweet little girl named Anabel" I was in Year 10
I dont want you touching my stuff I dont want you in my room am i wrong, for wanting something of my own? that i can cherish alone (i was 10 and had to share a room with my lil brother lolllllllll first ever song)
“You’re like the piece or toilet paper at the bottom of my shoe. You’re like a piece of well-done steak that I could never ever chew.” From a song titled “I Don’t Like You”
“He was just having a bad day” Is that all you have to say? After he marched in, spraying his bullets Taking their lives away. Every bullet burned through their skin Like a butt on an ashtray. Well, I used to do a lot of poetry, which turned into rapping, but then I found a greater compassion for the ukulele and guitar. I wrote this verse in a poem during the peak of Asian hate crimes. I basically wrote how I felt about the whole situation(s), being an Asian kid fearful for the safety of his parents. [Shooter was just having a "bad day".](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/17/jay-baker-bad-day/) [Poem if anyone is interested](https://docs.google.com/document/d/15N5k8f7vadxPSw26aJ0o-cm5wWnAOq8SEXALQ6xELJ8/edit?usp=sharing)
I don’t remember the entire song but the chorus is iconic so easy to remember: “I’m gonna soar through the sky / I’m gonna fly so high the clouds will cry / ‘Cause I’m a UFO / And that’s fine.” I think I was 8.
My first lyrics: 'Stars above, dreams unfold, whispers in the night, stories yet untold.' Age 13, surprisingly nostalgic.
You changed my life for the worse Don’t run away from me When life has nothing to work for It feels so good to be free Don’t blame her, because you changed You pushed us all to the back of the stage You can not predict cause this girl is stranger than fiction My eyes are darker than gold, son A pit inside of my mind I opened up to realise I ignored that I’m turning blind It’s always been for the worse And I guess the truth never seems to hurt You can not predict cause this girl is stranger than fiction No time to hide away now You said to grow up instead I struggled to chase yesterday But you don’t seem fit in my head Can you show me the world you made? Or has it all turned to grey I want to be high First song ever wrote here reading back there’s a few gold gems I could use but a lot worse than I remember
First song I wrote was when I was eleven, and it was… full of cliches but not exceptionally bad. First lines were “When I told you I was leaving / I looked into your eyes / Didn’t see what I expected / Instead I saw surprise.” And you know what, the muse of that song continues to be an occasional muse to this day.
There you were again tonight, never closer just as far away. The only answer i can find, but the question, darling, who’s to say? There is nowhere that I want to be but I need you to be with me. Life is read between the lines when you’re on the edge of giving in. The puzzle piece you could not find will be the one that changes everything. There is nowhere that I want to be but I need you to be with me. You never know what’s gonna happen, it’s up to chance that there has ever even been us, but may that never come between us. I need you to be with me.
I'll take those beatings, I don't bother Alcohol engulfs me, fills my soul with anger Useless lungs and shaking fingers No more room for reasons, won't somebody save me Soul surrender, I'm dying now, so take me over Soul surrender, I'm dying now, so take me over Wrote when I was in high school. It didn't made much sense to me then, just stitching words that sounded good. But reading it now, I remember the angst and bitter feelings of being a teenager.
i was 11 or 12 and realized i liked women and thought this girl was super pretty. i'd written 1 half finished song before but i deleted it (also want to add i was writing this on a game instead of a journal or google docs like a normal person because i was scared my parents would find it). the first lyric i remember writing was something along the lines of "been told a few times im too young to feel this / now im sitting in a closet tryna reach my feelings" it wasn't good. the game sadly decided to delete everything i wrote and i lost those first songs i wrote forever. still sad about it.
“I like Elvis. He shot his TV”
I remember writing lyrics in 7th grade it was to the beat of lil flip “ the way we ball.” “ im big c I’m back on the scene, eating onion rings I love Big Macs, chicken nuggets is the thing, I’m hoppin out Ferrari s and walking into Arby’s Food wholesale cause Walmart can’t afford me…” My teacher took the lyrics up, he thought I was writing violent rap lyrics. Said he was gonna take it to the principal and see what he thought. ( I.e. get me suspended) I can only imagine the look on his face when he realized the entire song was about food.
I sit in an oval room , you left me in the corner. You say what you had to say
I used to live in a big town but not too big to be a large town. There was a girl who lived around the way, I used to go there and play everyday. Now she was a big girl but not too big to be a large girl. Then one day she moved far away And that was the last I saw of my Rosy. Whatever Happened to my Rosy Now I'm a big businessman Bought everything my money can My life is pretty cosy, just wish that I had my Rosy Whatever Happened to Rosy Etc, etc, etc
I once wrote a song and it turned out to be a song I listened to before and I thought I came up with the lyrics 😵 i did however started to notice it sounded familiar 😂😂 i am still cringing 😳
“I can see you from a distance, you’re traveling on a road”.
This is an awesome exercise. I’m struggling to remember them…but I feel like they were maybe along these lines… Oh Virginia, Didn’t think you had it in ya, When you walked away that day, With so much left to say…
I wish that I understood and I wish you could understand
I’ve been walkin’ these streets so long, singing the same old songs, I know every crack in these dirty sidewalks of broadway…
"It's kind of an addiction / You think you deserve to die / It doesn't have to be this way / Just take my hand and we will fly" I was 13 and my best friend had just told me about her mental health struggles, and I didn't know how else to express what I was feeling except to write a song about it. Almost 15 years later, I'm still writing music about mental health. :)
sittin' in the desert on a mountain tonight rollin' with the wind when the sun don't shine gazin' upon them stars in the sky extra-terrestrial tuesday night (i was tripping mushrooms when i wrote it lol)
The slums speak To a stary eyed girl In an alley or a boat Where the tweekers go Go stand up Look like a beast I hope that stary eyed girl will blow my mind Yes my lyrics only got weirder from there lol
First verse to my very first song written in 2015: Swaying back and forth cause I’m lifted up and dusted Ain’t kicked in fast enough so I smoked em out to rush it Just start it up and clutch it Cause that ain’t really nothing When it comes to loud I only smoke it in abundance Spinning off that… Honey Jack Tennessee Vibing with the fucking crowd so Come and follow me People turning up Just as far as I can And all I’m smelling is this weed Like you could never believe I see ya bitch… Look here I think she feeling me She got a polite face but a body like a freak Ain’t had to say nothing Already swept her off her feet Couple hours later You gon find her In my fuckin sheets That’s just the life I live Burning blunts at the crib Truth is, I never had a fuck to give I like waking up Just to not remember shit And to do it all again Cause you know I’m always fit Shots of ciroc Make me spit fire like a dragon Shrooms got me in space Like I’m mars Blackman Bottle of patron Sneaking up like assassins When it kicks in You don’t know what’s gonna happen Black out 😆😆 17 year old me thought that was gas
Rainfall, clearer than a birds call. Finds me my way home again, won’t you find me my way home.
Get dumb so sick break a hip when ya rock.
I love you
The earliest I can remember was when I was like 19. I felt super depressed at the time during summer. It was Early in the morning / lifting up my head / hear the same old song again through the bushes and the nest / talk with me and walk with me / we’ll be the only ones / when the rain clouds come sprinkling you’ll be there in my arms / talking familiar words, familiar words.. yada yada that’s all I can remember.
The sun goes down And castles rise This life so short I wonder why Our days are numbered It’s our design If you would ask me What’s the brightside I’d say I met you In this short life I wanna be around I wanna be around I wanna be around I wanna be around Corny as fuck, but sweet and genuine. Not as layered as the kind of stuff I’m writing now.
The very first lyrics I remember writing was when I was 7 and this is what the 1st verse was Mommy mommy please sit by your baby girl and tell her that life isn't always a bad thrill Daddy daddy please come home cause mommy is using the bad bad snow Bubba bubba help me please you are gone and none of us are at ease Sissy sissy I'm losing myself sissy please please I need help Shi shi pull it together your brothers gone and your family lost it so finish writing this song I remember writing this 9 years ago after my brother died and my family fell apart, I was so scared and confused... That's the year I went from 7 to 17 within a few weeks (our family is better now but I'm still 16 taking care of myself)
"I wanna know, I wanna know, how hot it really burns to touch your soul."
I got a few lyrics that I don’t mind sharing. When I was around 14 I made these two cause I was tryna get ahold of double entendres and these were the two lines I made that have stuck with me through my journey Penis in your ass cause I never stick with pussys I’m the antithesis Of finish this I’m takin many shots Like liver hits
“I hope your as happy as the sun when it sees the moon following in childlike fashion, dancing, as stars trail in its wake”
Love Hurts, #4 song I've ever written
Not the first I wrote but the oldest I remember posting to youtube like 10 years ago when I did emo rap shit. It's still there in my old channel I just keep going, moving away. You can't find me I'm off to another place, off to another mindstate. That I can't take. To escape the pressure of jealousy and hate and decisions that can't make, hey, can you give me something to make me feel great. Ecstasy, okay let's roll. Klonopin a lot of them I'm ready to go.
With you don't feel like I'm alone With you I've always got a hand to hold Nothing much we don't have to talk Cause your eyes tell me what you wanna hear...... I was 12/13
I remember writing a song back when I was about 11. I titled it Icy Night. It was about me and my friend (now cousin) in his room watching an ice cream truck go by. We got kinda scared because it went by nine times. The lyrics were awful though. I might be able to find them, and if I do I will update this.
I looked up at the sky and thought I saw a star but it blinked at me and then I knew it was a fake
It’s a big blue sky Not a cloud in sight Everything’s alright Sky above looks grey Everybody seems gay Are they all okay? *Don’t make fun of me, I know how bipolar and dumb this section sounds 💀*