I want to write a song called “You Don’t Get to Know Me”, so I Googled “How to Write a Song and I’m going to try to write a song tonight from this article that I found. Why this article and not another? This one popped up first. Yay, research.
So, I know the title and the article says that the most popular structure for a song is verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge (whatever that is), chorus. It also says that you should have questions about the title and to answer a question in each verse and one in the chorus. Here’s what I have so far:
Verse
What are you?
Chorus
Who are you?
Verse
When are you?
Chorus
Who are you?
Bridge
Where are you?
Chorus
Who are you?
Yeah, I went with the reporter questions. I may switch out one of the verses with “why” or “how” if one of the other ones doesn’t work out. Okay, Step 5 is to “find the melody”, whatever that means, and to “choose the lines you like best for your chorus”. I haven’t written any lines. I guess I’ll do that now. Okay, I don’t know how to do that. Back to Google.
Okay, that wasn’t helpful either. I’m going to write a poem instead, and call it a song. Hold on, be right back…
You Don’t Get to Know Me
Verse
Like a bird without wings,
A cricket that never sings,
A lion with no teeth,
A daffodil among the heath.
Chorus
You don’t get to know me,
You don’t get to know me,
I know some of you,
But you don’t get to know me.
Verse
Always three steps ahead,
Or seven steps behind,
I spent a decade in my bed,
The next one in my mind,
Chorus
You don’t get to know me,
You don’t get to know me,
I know some of you,
But you don’t get to know me.
Bridge
See me by the tree planning the spree,
I steal your lordly Chablis, I am beastly,
An absentminded amputee bumble bee,
Can’t you, can’t you, stop waiting for me,
Chorus
You don’t get to know me,
You don’t get to know me,
I know some of you,
But you don’t get to know me.
Okay, there you go. I had to look up what a bridge was supposed to be and that’s as close as I can get. I don’t really know anything about music, but this would probably make a decent four-chord song. 🙂
I should probably address the fact that I haven’t updated this blog in almost a month.