Easiest way to get music put to lyrics?

Hi,

You did more than fine, and I applaud your dedication to the subject, even though it seems like ... no one can really see inside everyone's mind to see where it comes from, and most of us don't have that ability anyway ... besides being told that we are too old now to know anything, right?

All in all, for me, this is a two way street ... from acting work to actors, some are more mental than the others who are more intuitive, but it all sounds fine in the end, so the way it is done, is not the issue for me ... the process that gets the answer is, and (of course!!!) that is the deer in the headlights moment ... it happens or it doesn't.

I can see how music can create lyrics ... being a writer I can also see how lyrics (I use "words) can create music ... thus, trying to define one over the other is a bit crazy ... I can create poems, over almost any TD piece of music ... btw, the oddest thing ... NONE from the folks that kept going since EF, including the redone pieces ... so for me, it's like its "soul" is missing ... and we know it is, and the rest of the folks have not been able to create their own "soul" for the music they are doing, and I think that too much of it is about their knowledge and use of the instrument, a lot more than it is about what comes out of it. The "sound" itself is not showing them anything ... it's just a tree swinging ... another bird chirping ... kind of thing that we ignore, so to speak.

It's not the same for everyone ... for example, as much as I like your material, it is really difficult to bring up "imagery" with it (for me), and I think that may have to do with how fast you switch gears, and maybe (what do I know) do not develop a bit, or piece, further.

One issue here ... sometimes, in wording or "lyrics" people are expecting some sort of rhyme or some sort of meter that matches the music, and this is a serious problem, specially if the music itself is a sort of stream of consciousness that is not necessarily "centered" for any kind of wording ... and still some folks can match it up with something ... and you and I can find this in Frank Zappa and others. With one exception ... in most cases FZ did not do this to show off what he knew, but to show that things could be mixed together just fine, and he succeeded where most failed.

Thus, you and I could say, it doesn't matter ... any words will fit, if we figure out HOW to say them, and HOW to use them, so they do not detract from the music, or vice versa. I always thought that folks like Mick and Bowie did this ... and did it well!

In the Klaus Schulze DVD with Lisa, there are 2 addons ... one with SW which is crap, and the other about an engineer, having found something inside of the piece that was "incomplete" and he wanted to fix that with this and that ... and Klaus agreed to it. It just gives you an idea of how you can see inside something and find a bit here or there that wakes you up ... and this is important in music ... not just the melody that puts the baby to sleep.