Originally Posted by: BrokenJeraim not sure but any time i have tried to write lyrics out before i have a melody or even a beat it never works for me.

if i try to write lyrics i usually start with an idea (like mega deth did with peace sells) and go from there.

the last 'song i tried' to write was called how i look to them. i wrote it in part when i was in high school and the rest later but here is the chours:

i wonder how i look to them
the posters on my wall
all my heros, paving the way
will they come to my day

i was smoking about $50 of weed a day at the time so go easy.

See if this works for you. Remember when writing words can be sped up, stretched, slowed down, shorten, to make it work in a song. Lyrics should not match the same sylables per line.

V1
I wonder how I look to them, my heroes posted on my wall,
Would they even lend an ear to me at all?
These greats that paved the way.
I wonder what they would say.

V2
Off to sleep, I awake to thundering riffs and lightening balls.
My heroes have come down from the wall,
Hendrix passes me an axe to trip.
And screams, “Step up and let it rip!”

CH
I stretched and shredded and let it scream.
I bled on the neck and on the strings.
They were please my heroes and me.
We jammed all to victory.



Just a thought to get you started.