Hello to all!
This week, I get to pick your number once again and this time we're going with "one." Your task is to craft one line so well that it can stand up to an intense amount of repeated hearings. For lack of a better term, we're going to call it your "tagline." Your tagline is to be used in the following song structure:
Verses should be four to eight lines long, using the following pattern:
Any line you'd like
Your tagline
Any line you'd like
Your tagline
(Optional any line you'd like)
Your tagline
(Optional any line you'd like)
Your tagline
Choruses are to be four lines long using the following structure:
Your tagline
Your tagline
Any line you'd like
Your tagline
Bridges are optional and can be whatever length you'd like. Taglines can be used but don't have to be.
Good luck with this. While it may seem simplistic, working with this restrictive a structure can be quite challenging.
As always, I look forward to reading and to listening to what you come up with.
Peace
If anyone wants a "somewhat" of an example, the first song that came to my mind was
Bruce Springsteen - The Wrestler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRUEKJIcvbo
http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-wrestler-lyrics-bruce-springsteen.html
Thanks for that, James.
Warren Zevon is another songwriter who used this structure (or variations of it) quite a bit in songs like "Keep Me in Your Heart," Poor Poor Pitiful Me" (for the chorus), and "Excitable Boy."
Peace
