Who do you write about?

[Stu.]

Who do you write about in your songs? Is there one person your songs end up aimed at, or are you searching for something or a place?

Is there a recurring theme to your music & writing?

What inspires you to keep writing & recording.

I'd be interested to hear.



Stu.

[Cross the Border]

Tough one mate, I've written songs about most things,

I tend to be a very observational writer, but unlike most observational writers I don't write about what I see I write about what I feel, in that I observe a feeling without realising it and then write about it.

My own writings tend to be quite sad and depressing, even when I am feeling good ha ha so I guess a shrink would have a field day. Which is also why I have a writing partner hahahaha and a few people around to collab with, because I'd be an emo in a week otherwise hahahaha

[Bell Tone Easy]

No one person for sure.. I think if the was a theme it's love, and loss. Quite often based somewhat on other people's stories, but sometimes my own also. I have no compunction about totally making various details up, to help make the story fit in with and work with the song, which I normally regard in the end as complete fiction.

Once I wrote a song about a current partner that sucked and shared it with my then current partner (who sucked.) I believe now that sharing that information was a mistake. It was in all fairness part of the same ammo that was being directed at me constantly, but I ought not to have returned the fire. So I feel bad about that. But it was a good song. Hard to keep a secret.

[GayleMyrna]

Hi. Real good question. Difficult to answer LOL! My songs tend toward the introspective/reflective and can get rather abstract lyrically at times...themes along the lines of mortality and other cheerful matters! Though I do have some songs that came out of relationships..."Winter Skies" is my unrequited love song, for instance. "Secrets" is about NOT acting upon a wayward attraction...But more of my stuff is inwardish. That being said, I also like to think the listener can put their own meaning into a song...
GayleMyrna

[Bush Girl]

I keep writing about the same person and situation lately. Someone I've missed for a long time. Repeatedly about this person. Every love song gets turned around into something platonic in my head and I start getting upset. They've been out of my life for fucking forever and they don't want back in, and so I write my unrequited friend songs.

Stupid thing... I could have taken a chance to be in the same car with them for a bit... but I can't stand rejection anymore.

I'm so sick of wanting people that don't want me back. I've come to the conclusion that if I have to jump through hoops to be someones friend, they probably don't care for me all that much to begin with.

With that in mind... what the fuck do I write now?

[Bell Tone Easy]

Don't snarl at your catalog, it's quite good. Honest and lovely.

You ought mebbe to sing about cats. Mebbe develop a Cat Song.

Or a stuck in the frozen tundra of Canada song.

You could move to warmer climates.

Sing us a love song again. I know you have some. :)

[Badnames Left]

The easy answer would be "a girl", whenever girl A or B, but it's not that simple anymore. Hardships in life, something I cannot take or understand, God, whatever sounds "right" in your head. English is not my primary language since I'm finnish, so I struggle at times. The main thing should be (at least for me) that you have that certain feeling/image/atmosphere in your mind when you're writing a song, and whenever you can think of a word or a phrase that just fits (even if it doesn't make much sense - just listen to Nirvana) the picture in your head - you're right on the spot.

My songs tend to a mixture of melancholy and hope. Or then again, I'm not even sure. They're all starting to sound the same anyway, but I don't care.

Now you tell me, how do you write and what inspires you?

[ayewrite]

i dont write songs about any thing..........i write about how i feel about whatever subject spring into my wee brain........my songs are aimed at nobody in particular and everybody in general,i am not looking for anywhere or anything....but wouldnt say no to wee a win on the lotto....my songs are mostly about life and death and the in betweens....i havent a clue why i keep writing songs ....all i can say its better than watching the telly and its a challenge...you know ,to make every new one that wee bit better...........well it is for me anyway.

[Kimberley Arnold]

Even though I don't write lyrics, when my music is about someone, their name is in the title (except for the "love songs"... they're all for Bill!). As for writing depressing music, Cross the Border, just think of it as a VERY inexpensive therapist... I do!

[Lew Bear]

The only recurring theme with my music is that all the songs comprise of 4 or less chords (bar one)

Aside from that I almost deliberately set out to go as far from one song to the next as possible. From observations of a drunk woman, to the man with the biggest penis of all time and mother natures wrath to how fucked over smokers are - I pretty much drop something if it reminds me of an old song, but that wont be able to go on forever

Its all various things that are on my mind at the time. The one thing I try to avoid is writing about myself in a direct serious sense as it makes me too depressed if I go that introspective.

[SLUMDOG]

I tend to write about my life quite a lot. It can be a good way of getting things off my chest so to speak. Keeps me sane.
I also write about life in general. Observational songs with some embellishment to make them flow.
Sometimes a song will be specifically about someone. Sometimes Praising them or sometimes kicking them, depending on how I feel about them obviously.
Other times I will just play with words 'til something coherent comes out of it.
Slumdog.

[Sketchy]

hmmm, great question Stu.

I suppose as most of my instrumentals are melancholy, then a lot of my work must be introspective. Sort of foreboding, but with hope there somehere. They do seem to mirror how I was feeling at various times of my life.

Life aftrer death also seems to be a recurring theme, especially in the worded songs I write.