The first thing I did was to try and find all the words I’ve written down over the past year.
Quite the task. They were spread over Word documents and “Post-It-Notes” on 3 different computers as well as on my phone, as email drafts, in various notebooks, diary entries, on napkins in moving boxes etc etc.
Half of it is useless. Little random ideas written in some spur of the moment. Either simply bad or just incomprehensible.
But some of it has been a great inspiration to get going.
I prefer to have the core of the lyric before I start the music. Through the words you get an idea of a rhytm and often, with finished lyrics, the music will write itself.
The words often get in way as well, though, and half of the time I end up not saying what I really wanted to say because the rhymes and the melody take over and bend the story and the meaning.
But that’s part of the magic for me, too. When it ends up saying something I didn’t expect.
