Freedom

America

The bankruptcy in the USA seems incredibly terrifying!Why's that!?Well, because from outside, the USA had a very well penned image as a very secure country!!!That happened until the 11 th of september 2001 when terrorists high-jacked those two planes in New York and Osama Bin Laden became the most wanted person in America and throughout the world!America's security lost some degrees!!!!But, finnancially USA had a high level rate of securities!The US Government even had the resources to start the second IRAQ war because of a limited an so neccesary resource, wich is the oil!The americans payed taxes and sent their young "gunns" to support a War in the Middle East!It wasn't defense, it was conquest!!!!Still, finnanciary the USA stays still!!Even got allies in Great Britain, France and even Eastern european countries!Just Russia is precaucious as ever, if it's not about her territory or the former soviet states!!!Russia has the monopole of gas, they aren't trubled!!!
So, the world is a jungle and USA is the mighty lion that rules it!
The last real crisis happened long time ago in the USA.It was during 1929-1933 when super production ruined the american economy!It was money less!Thank God for the Second World War!The Marshall plan was perfect to sell out the wasted goods!Germany had it as a credit, Spain had to accept military basis in exchange of partial non-returnable credit from the USA for the recovery!Part of it was money, but more of it was goods!Guess which ones?Well, yes, it's the goods from the crisis!Then, USA was the knight in shining armour for Europe, so the White House did it again and saved the american economy!Is it a similar situation with the one that happens now?
Remember,a most recent crisis, the oil crisis from 1973!OPEC members agreed to use their leverage over the world price-setting mechanism for oil in order to raise world oil prices, after the failure of negotiations with the "Seven Sisters" earlier in the month.The 1973 oil crisis was a major factor in Japan's economy shifting away from oil-intensive industries and resulted in huge Japanese investments in industries such as electronics.
It seems that USA has a certain history of crisis!!But the 2008 stock of exchange liability crisis had a huge impact on the american economy in the central plan, and of course, on Europe, Asia and Australia too!Is America a barometer for the world economy?I belive so!American banks were alloud to contract high level risk credits and when they weren't returned, look what happened!Huge transnational empires had to be nationlized!Is this democracy, or it's going back to comunism!Do USA have a five-years plan?In modern economy, the intervenience of the state in economy should be small, almost unreachable!Ok, it's a crisis, but the US Government solved it way too easy!Are they hidding something bigger or was it a "hand made" crisis to prove, right before elections, that the White House is strog against winds of change? The IMF and the World Bank did nothing, isn't it awkward?
Politics, domination and religion caused a lot of conflicts during mankind history, where do they lead now!? The Middle East is a time bomb, the fanatism and the indoctrination play huge roles in people's lives!China has a increasing rate of developement and it won't stop, because of the small costs of production and an even smaller price of selling!The population of China and India keeps high level rates too!Are we going to a global super population crisis!?The climate is ,also, changing!The global warming is devasting on coast lands and tornadoes are stronger and wilder!Is a new glacial era coming towards us? We can only guess and pray for our children!For now, we should stopp fighting for supremacy through wars like USA.It look like a revenge on what happend to New York in 2001 and as a ugly takeover of oil from arabian countries!We should limit the consuming of limited resources and think of alternative energies for the sake of future generations! During world history there were certain characters, like Hitler and Stalin, that had a dark vision of inhumanity!It's unbelivable that such creatures were to the point to rule the world, no matterhow many sacrifices were needed, nor the future consequences!We don't need another Third Reich, nor another URSS!Still, there's the European Union!Every country within it must obey the rules, regulations and idiocracy of EU!Where is this going to!Why not letting Turkey in?Europe wants a road to oil, but doesn't want Turkey within it!Is it religion the reason?None admits it nor denies it!
Is the finnancial crisis in USA a point of control or is it a small start for a bigger event!?Should Europe be afraid of the risky global stock market, that has it's major point and center in New York!?We can only make suppositions and graphics!Still where is the world going to, self distruction or the conquest of itself and God knows of what else?

Songwriting criterias

One afternoon I start thinking about not only how to write a song, but on how to write a representation of truth or fantasy with a glimpse of my personality song.Shoul I write of truth or should I write of fantasy?May I write of love or may I write of rage!Coul I write of a warrior or of a messenger of peace? I gues it depends of the contrasting moods of each soul!One question I have no answer for is : Why do I write better at night?
Here some of my rules of attraction in writting a song.
1.Always carry on a notebook or an agenda or a cel or even better a laptop where one can expose some sketches of a song.You don't know when or where you have the brilliant idea of your life!
2.Start a daily songbook or lyricbook.Once I used to have a notebook where I wrote something on someone each and every day.Every idea or lyric must have the writing date and hour.It is very important.It's some kind of education that obliges me to have a daily exposure of a laugh or a tear.And it is easier to see the phases that your personality is going through during lifetime.
3.Trust your talent.Don't fear to write something that seems different or weird to others.If you want to really know yourself you must know your darkest side to be whole.To help the others is to help yourself.
4.If you chose a topic of writing, a rhyme or a rhytm don't keep it too long.Let it be a phase in your writing composition.
5.Each writer has a muse.A person, nature, thoughts or other lyicists.Don't imitate create.If you love Dickinson or lord Byron and know their writings by heart don't try to steal their ideas.They've lived in other times and other places.You live know here!Beyou!Love your muse.
6.Write briefly.Don't continue writing without ending.If you have an ideea or the perfect line.Don't write about it an entire song.Combine love with hate, happiness with lonelyness, shiness with dare, war and peace.
7.Don't write just to write.You must love writing.Write with lust and passion.Fall in love with your character.Love it's lust.Hate ignorance love originality!Write with feeling!
8.No matter what gender you write.Listen to the competition.Don't follow their line of writing, but watch them.If they inspire you take the idea but write it in your way.(e.g. a whirlwhind of glaced waters = glacier).
9.Trust your instincts write forbidden.They thought that Elvis's music was perverting people of his times, because he shaked his hipps to much!He's the god of rock'n'roll now, because he was original!One must die to live forever!
10.Show the truth that lies in you trough your song and your lyrics!Let the whole world know the talent that your soul carries in dare.Don't try to fit in the world you're living.Expose it how you see it.By just writing some of your darkest and secret thoughts you may trying to understand the truth of who you are and what you dare into this world or even why you were born, there, by that time, and your reason to live or die.

If you have any thoughts , recomendations, ideas, critics on my rules of songwriting, please let me know.reply or e-mail strange.feelings2007@gmail.com.

Weakness For Longing

Indecent Shadows Of Insatiable Desires
Worship The Nakedness Of Involving Sensations
Waves Of breathtaking´ Pleasure Demand
Unrevealed Parfumes Of Freedom In Neverland
The Moon Baths In The Sea Spreading Revealing Rays
On The Untouched Virgin Ready To Die For Love
Forgiving Laws, Offering The Seducing Smile
(Screaming For More)
Spreading Shining Stars Of First Time Dreams
Upon Sacrifices Uncrying Lost Rainbows
Devouring Spirits For Everymore

CHORUS

PAGAN SOUL
Trembling, Suffering, Longing, Needing
My Empty Spirit Hear My Feelings Crawl
In The Neverending Weakness For Longing


C.B.

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Songwriting Mood

Every songwriter tried just once during his lifetime to check out in wich mood, in wich state of mind he finds himself or herself writing better than ever.
When I am happy or greatfull to God I write cherishful things.When I am sad, with a heartbreak or passing or hearing about a tragic incident or situation I write tragicly real. When I am a rebel and find no understanding from the world around me I write of me.When I am drunk I write forbidden. Wheather I write of hate and rage or love and tenderness it is still I who writes.I think each state of mind is another mask or identity of mine. My mood depends of my nature. I don´t belive in commercial writing.I write better at night when I am sad and unfaithfull.Succes means originality.Wich is your best writing mood.
Forever trust in who you are and nothing else mathers!

chase b

SONGWRITING TIPS

How a title becomes a lyric.

The best way to demonstrate this is to give an example. Let's say I'm interested in writing a song called "California Girl." (The title occurred to me one summer morning when I was sitting on the beach in Santa Monica eating sushi for breakfast, feeling very much like a California girl. You never know when a title will hit ya!) Okay... I don't know what this song is about yet or why this phrase interests me but it does, so I need to find out more.

First: Ask Questions. Start by asking the questions this title wants to have answered. Let's say your title is "I Drove All Night." What questions need to be answered: "Where did you drive?" and "Why did you do that?" Now apply this idea to '"California Girl": "Who is she?" and "What is she doing?" How I answer those questions will determine what my song is about. Now, you may answer them in very different ways than I do and that's just fine. There could be several songs written with the title "California Girl" and they would all be different. My "California Girl" is no longer the teenager of the Beach Boys songs. I want to know how her life turned out, what she thinks about when she remembers those long ago golden summers. This has a strong emotional pull for me so that's the song I should write. You might want to write a party song or a song about young lovers on a beach. Your choice will depend on which of those ideas has the strongest emotional appeal for you - THAT is the song you should write.

Notice that I didn't start this song by wanting to tell a story or relive something that happened to me. Instead, I am just following my feelings. This is how songwriting (or writing poetry) teaches you about yourself. If you already know what you want to write, don't write a song, write an essay. A song is about DISCOVERING! 1.


Second: Make a list of words, phrases, or images suggested by the title. "California Girl" obviously makes me think of sun, waves, playing, warmth, ocean, paradise, beach, sand, etc. Sand makes me think of flowing, changing, so I add the words "flowing" and "changing" to my list, then try to think of things that flow and change: time, water, dreams and add them to my list, too. After you have a list of related words, make a list of words, phrases, and images that are opposites. My list would include: cold, night, dark, sadness, loss, lonely, etc. this is a kind of free-association game. Don't be judgmental, just write down whatever comes to you.

EXERCISE: Go back and look at the title you circled. Does it suggest any other words, images or thoughts. Make a list. Write them down quickly, in single words or short phrases. Don't think about rhyming or making sense at this point. Then, make a list of opposites. Write as many words as you can think of.



Lyrics are not poems. Using ghost melodies.

Many inexperienced songwriters begin by writing a lyric that looks like a poem, complete with nice rhymes and a regular, sing-song meter. What you get when you write lyrics without music is usually bad poetry. So, let's say you want to write a song but you don't play a musical instrument, here's what you do: Pick a song that already exists and write new words to it. Call this pre-existing song the ghost song because you are going to use it as a pattern on which to base your lyrics, then it's going to vanish completely! If you have a favorite artist in the genre you'd like to write your song in, use one of their songs as the ghost song. Play the song until you are familiar with the melody and can hum it to yourself.

EXERCISE: Choose a hit song as a ghost song. Make sure it's a song you like and one that moves along at a tempo (speed) that suits your mood. Do you feel like writing an angry or happy song with lots of energy? Then you want a song with a fast tempo. Want to write a sad song or sensual love ballad? Than you want a slow tempo. Become familiar with the ghost song. Learn to hum the melody line.


Song Forms

The advantage to using a ghost melody is that the song form or structure is already laid out for you. The most common contemporary song form is verse / chorus / verse / chorus / bridge / (verse) / chorus. The other common song form is verse / verse / bridge / verse. I don't have space here to explain why we use song forms; for now let's just say that it's what all us listeners like to hear and what we respond to emotionally. A couple of useful definitions:

Verse: The verses all have the same melody but different lyrics. The verse lyrics give us information about the situation, emotions, or people in the song. In the verse / verse / bridge / verse song form, the title is usually in the first or last line of each verse.
Chorus: The chorus is the section in which both melody and lyrics are repeated. The chorus lyrics give us the heart of the song. The title of the song almost always appears in the chorus section and may be repeated two or more times.
Bridge: The bridge has a different melody, lyrics, and chord progression from the verse or chorus. It provides a break from the repetition of verse and chorus and is sometimes an emotional turning point.


Writing chorus and verse lyrics to a ghost song

Look back at your title, questions to answer, and your lists of related words and phrases. Think about the title, hum the ghost melody in your head and try to fit your song title into the chorus section. See if you can use it two or more times. BETTER YET... choose the ghost song first before you look for a title, then find a title you can comfortably sing in the same place where the ghost song title is. Fill in the rest of the chorus lyric by answering the questions and using some of the words and phrases from your lists. This will keep your lyric focused which, in turn, makes it emotionally effective. Don't make a big effort to find rhymes (unless you are writing for animated films or musical theater); it's more important to say what you feel at this point. If you happen to find something that rhymes, and says what you want to say, that's great but don't distort the message to make something rhyme. Keep things conversational and honest.

Once you have a chorus, try writing the verse in the same way. Again, try to use the questions and related and opposite word lists. If you used them all in the chorus section, go back and create another list. With each verse, try to give the listener more information. You don't have to tell a linear story but there should be some development. And remember, the listener knows nothing at all about your situation or about you. Let us in! Here are some questions you can answer in your verses: What are you feeling? Who are you feeling it about? What is the problem? How will you solve it? How did it begin? How do you think it will end?

EXERCISE: When you're listening to the car radio or playing music around the house, make up new lyrics to hit songs just for fun. Once you feel comfortable with this, then choose a ghost song and find a title you can comfortably sing where the ghost song title is; make sure it's a title you want to write about. List two or three questions suggested by the title and make your lists of related and opposite words. Write a chorus lyric using some of the words on your lists and answering the title questions. Play around with phrases and ideas to fit them into the ghost song melody. Keep the title where the ghost song title is. After you finish your chorus, write your verses the same way.