Songwriting part 4

 We had a line that I mentioned earlier, the name of the song I mentioned earlier, “The Sun Don’t Shine”…. (Singing; the Sun don’t shine, the words don’t rhyme)

If we are going to repeat the melody, we have to use rhyming in the words. If we don’t use rhyming when using repetition or a sequence in the melody then it often sounds odd, sometimes it works, invariably it doesn’t work. So we’ve got to rhyme that here. I’m going to sing and play the chorus now and you can see the way the words work out here.

 

The song itself, you get the one line, the little bit of phrase in the melody and that becomes the story itself, the story is going to develop from that little phrase itself. We’ve used the word organic and it really is that, its composing organically through the music and the development of the lyrics as well.

 

Here’s that chorus and let’s just take it to its entirety.

 

So we’ve got the fact the Sun don’t shine, the words don’t rhyme. It all is leading us into the story about yes, the story so famous about the girl that went away and didn’t come back, you want her back so badly and you develop your lyrics through that idea, we’ve now got a subject matter and we can develop the song.