{"id":7,"date":"2007-05-08T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2007-05-08T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T16:12:00","slug":"wordplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/wordplay\/","title":{"rendered":"Wordplay"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite aspects of songwriting is wordplay.<\/p>\n

I almost invariably try to find ways to twist words or come up with clever lines to basically make myself smile.<\/p>\n

One of my favorite things to do in a song is a thing you often see in poetry – essentially using the same sounds in alternating lines, but varying the words.<\/p>\n

A good example (from “We Really Just Don’t Care<\/a>“):
Nobody sings a little song just to sing<\/span>
Nobody brings a little wrong just to sting<\/p>\n

<\/span>Or maybe this one (from “Without You With Me Tonight<\/a>” – written with my brother Rob):<\/span>
So I know that I’ll spend this evening lonely
But I can wait ’cause you are my one and only
‘Cause I really think you are the one for me
I would even look past infidelity
<\/span>My evening just couldn’t be right<\/span>
Without you with me tonight<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s little things like this that make me feel like I’m accomplishing something as a lyricist – telling the story, but doing it in a tuneful and lyrically clever way – not just stringing things together in some sort of weird baroque stream-of-consciousness thing (a la Alanis Morissette – but she’s not always like that).<\/p>\n

The bottom line is, it doesn’t work for every song, but I find it really fun to find new and interesting ways to make words go together and work together both rhythmically and sonically.<\/p>\n

I’m sure if I wrote stories my prose would be quite flowery and precious.<\/p>\n

More to come…
TMS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite aspects of songwriting is wordplay. I almost invariably try to find ways to twist words or come up with clever lines to basically make myself smile. One of my favorite things to do in a song is a thing you often see in poetry – essentially using the same sounds in alternating lines, but varying the words. A good example (from “We Really Just Don’t Care“):Nobody sings a little song just to singNobody brings a little…<\/p>\n

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