Do you write songs? Even if you can't sing well or whatever, do you still write lyrics?

I'm a horrible singer and I can't play guitar or piano or anything, but I still have written a few crappy songs.

Share and discuss.

I have probably written over 50. Too embarassed to share tho.

yup! just talked to a guy at a label a couple of weeks ago and he said they were great !
i'm trying to go to college for it somewhat

Yes. I started writing when I was 13/14 and quit writing regularly at the end of last year. I'd say that I've written atleast 120 songs. I scrapped/merged many of them, but my binder currently contains 97 songs.

Yes, I've written over 20 songs, and I continue to write

I also have melodys and arrangements for almost all of them.

Nope but I often come up with lyrics at night when I lie in bed.
But I always forget to write them down.
They are mostly about addiction to beauty,money and fame
A mixture between Marina and Lana

Yes. I haven't written too many but every now and then I will have these creative, inspired outbursts and a song will just sort of flow out of me.

Yep. About 6 albums worth. Themes, lyrics the works. And they're progressive too

My biggest problem when it comes to writing song lyrics is the fact that my musical taste changes so much. My first dozen or so songs have a simple, indie vibe; 15-20 are total dance-pop; atleast a third are extremely dark because I wrote them when I was going through a really messy breakdown and depression and would do nothing but listen to and write music in my dimly lit closet all day (it felt like the safest place to me at the time ). I'm most proud of those songs, though.

Yes. I've written probably around thirty lyrics, I have completely written two songs, with the piano parts and everything.

Yes

I have to be inspired to write. So I almost have no dance pop songs written that's my problem, I could never really make it in the pop world because I don't make catchy songs, all of them are either really complex lyrically are way too sappy. I do have some good ones about love though that have great melodies.

I think my problem is matching lyrics to a melody. Sometimes I write a full song and then im like...wait...what's the melody gonna be? Lol I have my flute and piano to help, but sometimes it's so complicated since my lyrics are so....complex. It's hard to put it to a melody you know?

I also have trouble with making different melodies lol all of my songs unfortunately sound the same

What a coincidence, I have just finished writing my first dubstep song.

YAS! Give me them Rated D hits

Me too. Dance-pop is easy to write when you're lacking inspiration. That's why it makes up such a small fraction of the music I've written. I could never make it for a living, though. I could never make any music for a living, actually. I can't sing and I wouldn't be able to give song lyrics to somebody who isn't going to credit me.

It is hard at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's easy. When in doubt, you could always look to other songs and artists for inspiration. I find that when I listen to a really deep song that I love, I'm inspired to write a song of my own. But you have to make sure you aren't copying the other song or something.

By the way, I always write lyrics knowing the melody and instrumentations.
IDK how to explain it, but the words already come to me with a rhythm, and my head fills the silence with what would be "the production".

fkdshf And I wrote most of them during the same time Rihanna was working on Rated R.

Same here. I can kind of hear it all in my head. When I'm writing the lyrics down, I don't hear the lyrics in my head as spoken words; I hear a voice singing them. Does that make me sound crazy?

I used to, but not anymore. Unless it's for fun, like when Mikal hosted his songwriting contests here, which I won twice with Charmander and Bits Of Love.