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Writing Lyrics 2016-06-16 00:16:52 Post No. 8166504
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Writing Lyrics Anonymous 2016-06-16 00:16:52 Post No. 8166504 [Report]
Hi /lit/.

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this because I haven't really done enough lurking so feel free to let me know if I should move this thread somewhere else.

I am a 19 year old musician who has written a bunch of music and wants to write lyrics to go along it, I have a whole bunch of topics/ideas that I want to put down in words but every time I try I can't help but feel a little dumb.

I'm not trying to put down or devalue poetry by saying this, I just feel like anything that I try to write doesn't feel genuine at all, as if I'm a kid in middle school who thinks he's hot shit for having written his first sonnet. Like nothing that I write would ever be taken as seriously as the work of other, successful lyricists.

I'm not really sure what I'm asking, I guess how to take my own work a little more seriously and get over this anxiety that I have about stuff that I write.
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Anonymous 2016-06-16 00:23:35 Post No.8166532
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Anonymous 2016-06-16 00:23:35 Post No.8166532 [Report]
YOU'RE 19 YOU FUCKING TWINK

IF I FUCKED YOU, IT WOULD BE LIKE A LION RAPING A CHIHUAHUA
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Anonymous 2016-06-16 00:24:26 Post No.8166534
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Anonymous 2016-06-16 00:24:26 Post No.8166534 [Report]
desu most lyrics, for even some of the best songs, are really shitty if you look at them on paper, as poetry.
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Anonymous 2016-06-16 00:26:22 Post No.8166540
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Anonymous 2016-06-16 00:26:22 Post No.8166540 [Report]
We have a saying here on /lit/:
“Write moar, faggot.”
And if you think you've written enough, you haven't.
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Anonymous 2016-06-16 00:33:30 Post No.8166569
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Anonymous 2016-06-16 00:33:30 Post No.8166569 [Report]
>>8166534

Tons of lyrics can't stand alone as poetry, but that doesn't stop them from having meaning and conveying a message. That's kinda what I want to go for in my writing, but I always feel like such a fucking edgelord when I read stuff back to myself.

I feel like I'm gonna stick with advice given by:
>>8166540
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kitty (ID: !kitty/EnNg) 2016-06-16 00:35:50 Post No.8166578
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kitty (ID: !kitty/EnNg) 2016-06-16 00:35:50 Post No.8166578 [Report]
>>8166534
some poems which were not intended as songs were later used as such though, for instance several ones of yesenin

here is an example, a rock band performs a song with yesenin's lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3i1tsP8guw
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Anonymous 2016-06-16 00:38:32 Post No.8166589
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Anonymous 2016-06-16 00:38:32 Post No.8166589 [Report]
>>8166504
>I'm not really sure what I'm asking, I guess how to take my own work a little more seriously and get over this anxiety that I have about stuff that I write
you're anxious because you suck.
you suck because you don't write enough.
get the fuck off the internet and write
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Anonymous 2016-06-16 00:41:08 Post No.8166598
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Anonymous 2016-06-16 00:41:08 Post No.8166598 [Report]
>>8166504
You haven't found your voice. This only comes through writing.

I would look at the lyrics of songwriters you really admire for inspiration.
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