Writing Lyrics
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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.
YOU'RE 19 YOU FUCKING TWINK
IF I FUCKED YOU, IT WOULD BE LIKE A LION RAPING A CHIHUAHUA
desu most lyrics, for even some of the best songs, are really shitty if you look at them on paper, as poetry.
We have a saying here on /lit/:
“Write moar, faggot.”
And if you think you've written enough, you haven't.
>>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
>>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
>>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
>>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.