Lame Lyrics

Attention, please! I have a confession: I cannot write song lyrics to save my life. Yes, I am primarily a fiction writer, but I write A LOT of poetry. A LOT. There's capital letters and repeats people, so I must be serious. However, I love music (even though I'm kind of hard-of-hearing) and I like to sing (hey, just because I'm deaf doesn't mean I'm tone-deaf, got it?). I have Youtube covers to prove I'm alright.

And my stuff on Youtube? They're just covers and that's it. I want to be able to compose my own music and write my own song lyrics. One time I actually did write some of my own music my sophmore year for ArtSign. I put together a few guitar chords and came up with lyrics. It was AWFUL though. I strummed my guitar too loud so it drowned out my voice, and the song lyrics were pretty horrific too. I wrote the first verse and chorus down here:

I'm in a plaid shirt
And my old blue jeans
Tied up in a bandanna, all the things I need.
Don't know what this means, But I'm walking away...

From everything and everyone I know.
Then I find myself in nowhere
And I don't know what to do or where to go...

Chorus:
'Cause I'm a...Stranger in a strange land
I'm a thousand miles from home.
Everyone speaks a language I don't understand.
The moon is shining bright, brighter than the sun.

The people here push me away
Like a distant memory-
They don't wanna stay...

As you can see, it's very much a country song and a bad one too. Look at all the trite phrases in there along with the Heinlein references...-shudder- After I realized how horrible it was, I practiced writing lyrics and I have to say, I've improved. However, they're still not even close to being Grammy-worthy. A sample of my best set of lyrics is below:

Her sanity...Is sitting on a house of cards.
And reality...Is playing with the Queen of Hearts.
She's falling down the rabbit hole
Doesn't know who she is and it's getting cold.

Then she goes and hits the floor...
Drink me, she shrinking now,
But who knows if she'll fit through the door?
She wants to go through, but she doesn't know how...

Chorus: Caterpillars and crazy twins,
It's all the same in Wonderland.
Created by the Author's sins,
It's spiraling out of control and

Who knows if she'll ever get out?
She doesn't know what her story is about.
This world will swallow her whole,
She may never get out of the rabbit hole.

She'll be lost to Wonderland...

These lyrics are pretty awesome compared to "Stranger in a Strange Land." Still...It's not great. I just have to accept that I'll never be a Taylor Swift or John Lennon. I am doomed to being a terrible lyricist.

You know what though? No matter how terrible I am, I will continue to write song lyrics simply because it's fun. With this, I diverge a little. Even if I don't make it as a writer, I will still continue to write for fun because you know what? I love writing!