Hi, I wrote some song lyrics and they need some music. They were intended to be used in a ren''ai (dating sim) game, although I don''t think that project will survive. But I''d still really like to hear what my song would sound like with music, and you (whoever writes the music) will be free to use the song for your own purposes, just give me credit for writing the lyrics. I would also be willing to accept suggestions for small modifications of the lyrics to make them sound better when sung. Anyway, here are the lyrics, hope you like. BTW my favorite sort of music is binge-and-purge rock with eloctronica and orchestration, like Garbage or NIN, but I realize that''s very complicated to create, and I''d be happy with anything that expressed the emotions of the song well. If you did want to try for binge-ang purge, I was intending the ''Open your...'' choruses as the loud rythmic part and the rest as the lullaby/ballad part. Open Yourself We huddle from the dark and chill, And the howling of the wind, And all of us are lonely, And all of us are kin, For men are only flesh and dreams, Blood and bone and sin; Leave not each other in the cold, But Open! and take them in. Open your heart, open your eyes, Part your wet lips, part your soft thighs; Sow, though you have not time to reap, Then take a breath …and leap! This world is cold and lonely, And no matter how many times Or how truly you give your heart away, Requitement may never be thine. Requitement may never be thine, my friends, And the world cannot be fought. But on good days, with courage, it may be faced; Happiness is not found, but wrought. So paint your face and frame your loins With tassels to entice. Curve your lips with promises, Sway your hips with spice. Love the wounded ones, my friends, As the night is loved by the day. Love the prettiest when you can, And the wittiest when you may. All of us are tattered, With time and care worn thin, But broken things are beautiful, And pain and love are kin, For men are only needs and hopes, Wishes, wants, and fears; Leave not each other to despair, But hold them and dry their tears. Open your heart, open your eyes, Part your sweet lips, part your warm thighs; Sow, though you have not time to reap, Then take a breath …and leap! It is enough to love one thing As hard and pure as you can. It is enough to make happiness For one woman or one man. I only hope for kindness, I will not cry for love, But give my own as freely As the sun shines from above. I only hope for poetry, I will not ask for more, But be content to leap at the sky Though I have no wings to soar. I open my heart, I open my eyes, I part my red lips, I part my white thighs; I sow, though I have not time to reap, Then I take a breath …and leap!

Man, that''s sweet.

depending on time, I might have a play with it.

BTW, Do you have a vocalist?

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i really hate stuff like that (nothing personal) but i really love what they call song-poemising.. (any john trubee fans?) (or that other guy.. the REALLY weird/cool one who keeps paying people to write songs about sowing rice.)

http://www.aspma.com/

i never charge for music, but i have to charge for song-poem.. there''s absolutely no way i could do something really bad unless i felt like i was ripping you off somehow, and unless i know i''m making bad music, i can''t be happy.

now if you think that''s a load of bollocks, i assure you that your artificially inflated fee *will include* the immensely tedious rendering of the entire lyric set into robot singing.. that will take me at least a week!

http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/tts/flinger
check ''virtual paradise'' or ''dawn'' on the jukebox page..

come on! how can you resist? okay, ignore me. i meant you to. i am controlling you.

Andrew - Thank you! ^_^ Unfortunately I do not have a vocalist, and I myself can''t sing worth a damn.


xoxos - "really hate stuff like that" meaning starting with words and adding music? These were intended to be song lyrics, not a poem, if thet matters. I''m just curious why. Me personally I don''t care much for music with no lyrics, so I could imagine other people prefer music with no lyrics, but I can''t see why it would make a difference which came first if you have both.



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i''m not attempting to invalidate your work, just had to state it because i really do have passion for song-poems (song-poem being a specific term for the hiring of an individual to set music to lyrics.)

i make a lot of music, and can''t help but love ''hack''ism.. ''hack'' music might sound bad to the layman, but to me it''s the greatest spiritual essence.... that''s why i offer to make music for games et c. for free.. i''ve made so much music there''s no point in me making any for me, i''ve heard it all... every synth swell, every spectral thumbprint, microtonal harmony.. however.. i have yet to write "theme for an angry washing machine that was fed brand x detergent," and though my heart yearns to, i never will.. because commercialism disgusts me.. so i gotta get to the act of having hack requests made of me without accepting money..

..and as said, this case is an exception for that because i have an aversion to your subject matter (i''m autoredactive) and if i felt like scum doing it (ie. by charging a fee) i *know* i could use it to push the frontiers of bad music, which, as you see, is, to me, something good.

..ie. your lyrics are not bad, but what could be more perfect than your crescendo of erm.. organism-based imagery for doing really bad music to? it''s like.. if you were at a bar and the band played a song about making cucumber sandwiches, you wouldn''t care if the music was bad.. but.. if the band were singing about ''important stuff'' like your lyrics and playing badly.. then the song would be completely agonising, wouldn''t it? that agony.. is my life''s great work.. for i.. must hack..

http://www.aspma.com/mp3.htm
you can spend weeks at this place..
thrill to "the amazing helicopters.." ..even i''m scared of "hydrogen, nitrogen, potassium."

and this guy...
http://www.aspma.com/guygax.htm
he brings me to my knees. i.. i.. i gotta go now.. *sniff*

Ok, here''s the raw deal: this poem is too damn long. I tried writing something that wouldn''t loop 14 times and ended up with 5h work => 3.01 of play time, MIDI piano version only. Effectively this constitues 5 verses (out of 14) and 5 radical changes in music over 3 minutes which is way too many. Also, there are quite few places that didn''t turn out sounding the way I was expecting/hoping. It''s 5 am now and sleep is desperately needed . Besides - my fingers are aching of rambling on the keyboards for 5 h straight.

Here are the files (unfinished):

The .nwc file
A type 1 MIDI dump for those of you who don''t have Noteworthy Composer

The .nwc version has lyrics in it as well, so it''s recommended (get the eval version unless you want a clean print out).

Notes: I might''ve changed one word someplace, don''t remember, maybe I didn''t. Typos may be common - didn''t really check.

Anybody who happens to listen: please let me know if it sucks. I love being told the truth. Besides, this is the first time I''m actually putting down any real notation for a song of my own, so I deserve to (be told I) suck

sundandshadow: If you''re willing to shorten your poem, I will finish the song (provided that at least sombeody doesn''t think it sucks)

Suggestions and stuff are wilkommen.

Notes on the .nwc file:

first two staffs are piano treble and bass, the third staff is for the lyrics and tune. There''s an intro, so just play the thing and lyric''s come into the view in a little while. There are a couple of places where the notes and lyrics really don''t overlap, but I''m too tired to explain why that''s so right today. But hey - sun''s coming up, so it must be tomorrow! Dang...

there's no 'crystal fm' on my daw, and no keyboard on my web pc, so i clicked this into logic 'fun' (which isn't..) while you were on that..
http://home.earthlink.net/~plattermatic/sweetheart.mid

it kinda works for the lyrics (2nd verse is nice) if you sing it fast and like frank sinatra.

[edited by - xoxos on April 1, 2003 12:34:53 PM]

Do you have the latest version of NWC? I think I read that the latest version includes the lyrics in the midi files it saves.

I don''t know why I bothered to read the thread - S&S''s writing is usually serious, dealing with real emotion, whereas I''ve never written a serious song in my life.

Nope - not the latest version. Haven''t had the time/will/need to upgrade.

sorry crispy it sucks... move over and let me have a crack at it (although i have the eval version so it wont work with the browser plug-in)

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