Lyrics...

I've been trying to write lyrics a lot lately... That's why I posted those other two lyrics yesterday. I've been thinking about it a lot. I hate trying to write poetry and lyrics. I like to write and speak more elaborately than is necessary. I'm always long winded. Lyrics need to be concise, and make a point with out using very many words... I try to turn all of them in to five paragraph essays. Also, i'm either preachy or whiny or... I don't know, it's awful. On many levels, for many reasons. I'm always trying to ram an opinion down your throat, I can never just write about "winter concrete reflection" or some stupid abstract bullshit. I've thought before of ways to get around this problem. Writing more whimsically like Keller Williams approach or They Might Be Giants... [Speaking of them, I'm going to see Keller tonight & I just saw They Might Be Giants" last night too, Thats pretty random... or synchronistic, depending on how you feel about the universe.] Anyways, whimsical to the point of novelty would be a good route to try too. I think some novelty bands our hilarious [obviously, if you know TMBG] Writing humorous lyrics like Tenacious D would just be lame to me... Flight of the Conchords does it so much better, but still, too cheesy... I've thought about finding a poet friend like Trey Anastasio from Phish and just adapting their poetry into lyrics. That would be just swell. Except I've got so many of my own words ripping my head apart. I personally quit writing poetry years ago because it was all awful, so I can't adapt any of my own. A few years ago I learned how to play a couple of the David Bowie cover songs performed by Seu Jorge from the movie "the Life Aquatic". That was fun because he sings in Portuguese. I just wrote down the noises and gibberish it sounded like he was saying and sang that instead. So perhaps making up my own language and just singing guttural noises would be fine. Perhaps singing more like an instrument and less like a human would be on point too... Who needs lyrics when you pretend you mouth is a saxophone? Ideally, I would like nothing more than to write lyrics like Bright Eyes. His stuff is so amazing, beautiful, poignant, & over all inspiring. A true storyteller.... That's never gonna happen though, his lyrics are too great... I need to figure out something quick though, because until i write some crappy lyrics I feel is worth my awful singing voice, I'm stuck in a musical rut with several new recordings... well, thats it for now, probably more crappy lyric attempts soon enough though, I hope...