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Songwriting Tip No.3
by PKelly on Jun 04, 2005
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Songwriting Tip No.3
Colourful text phrases-––Here’s the third songwriting tip for writing memorable lyric lines. This one belongs to the poets primarily but if used with care and intelligence we all have a bit of poet in us. And as I’ve said before, our goal here is to make our lyrics memorable. This is another valuable tool for your arsenal.
This tip involves the use of colourful adjectives and what I often call tinsel; combinations of words that are a pleasure to say and repeat aloud as well as just to listen to. You want to write a line that people not only enjoy hearing the singer sing, but like it so much they want to try it out for themselves and
sing along with you.
Lines like, “Koo-koo-ka-choo, Mrs. Robinson,” by Paul Simon and “Edna Million in a drop dead suit, Dutch Pink on a downtown train” by Tom Waits are such lines.
Of course the line should also connect to the rest of your lyric and make some sense! It all has to be connected together like a well made puzzle, as good songs often are.
The combination of alliteration See Songwriting Tip No. 2 and unusual names in these lines is irresistible. And irresistible is exactly what you want your songs to be.
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