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Lhefriel_Medies:
This is sort of a question that I've always wanted to ask a songwriter, or band, but have never had the opportunity, and I hope that it doesn't sound too offensive. How much thought goes into your lyrics? I ask this because a lot of the time lyrics tend to be obtuse and sometimes confusing, and my assumption is always that any meaning that I find in them is intentional. While, certainly, it's what I take away from the piece that's significant, but I've always been curious how much of the writing is done deliberately and how much is done to simply fit with the music. Doing prose occasionally, I recognize the difficulty of giving every word significance, not to mention how haphazard the final product often reads in such a case, and even given music's shorter length sometimes I wonder. Your music definitely falls into that paradigm that I would tend to analyze, so my curiosity gets the better of my at the chance. Sorry again about this.
Regardless of that, on a more standard note, your work is amazing. I've been listening to it for the past few days. Especially notable to me were "He Said She Said" and "Anachromance". Hopefully everything goes well for you guys.
Johnny C:
i would really like to turn this into something where i get used to hearing questions like this so i ought to give it a good go right away, huh?
I know a lot of people who don't put a lot of thought into their lyrics, and I know a lot of people who do. I'm one of the latter. Making stuff haphazard is risky because then you're just Paul Banks spitting out word salad and your bassist is calling you a poet in order to justify how awful your lyrics are.
Most of my lyrics come from an idea or a phrase that I then decide is interesting enough to expand upon. A lot of the time they aren't, but occasionally I hit something I'm comfortable with. Take "Anachromance," for example - I think it's a pretty coherent sequence of thoughts bound together by a central motif. It was all pretty deliberate! I have nothing against music where the lyrics don't mean anything but if people are going to spend time listening to them I figure I at least owe them something interesting.
Johnny C:
i feel like such a turd for answering questions like that extensively when they probably only need a line or two
if anyone wants lyrics by the way i can Post Them
squawk:
I would like that.
Lhefriel_Medies:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 12 Apr 2009, 03:31 ---i feel like such a turd for answering questions like that extensively when they probably only need a line or two
if anyone wants lyrics by the way i can Post Them
--- End quote ---
It's fine; I like the response more than I would a short one. I also have one more question; do the lyrics come before the music for you, or is it the other way around?
I would like the lyrics as well.
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