Hi all, glad to find this forum. This is my first post, so apologies if there is another thread covering this. I'm sure my problem isn't unique.
Bit of background, I'm a guitar player/singer/songwriter and I played in bands from being a teenager until I was in my early 30s.
Now, at the age of 53, I've spent the last couple of years getting to grips with Presonus Studio One and I now really enjoy it. I have a drummer friend who I email my stuff to and he puts live drums on for me. I'm enjoying playing guitar more than ever and love coming up with stuff using fingerpicking and open tunings. I also love the fact that these days, you can get phone apps for everything from a Hammond Organ to a Theremin, numerous synths, glockenspiel...etc...I really enjoy the production side of things. When I finish a song, I then make a video for it and put it on my YouTube channel, under the name Magic Bones.
The problem I have is with lyrics..When I was younger and playing in bands, I tended to adopt the 'Noel Gallagher Approach' (Not that I was a particularly big fan) of having a few rhyming couplets that scanned and had a few interesting images thrown in, but ultimately it was about nothing....
Now, I find that this just won't do. I want to write something with substance and lord knows, there's enough subject matter out there in the world at the moment, but I don't want it to be like '6th form poetry'.
At the moment, the melodies and chord sequences are just flowing out of me and I currently have about 6 songs in various stages of development, but none of them have even the most rudimentary lyrics! It's becoming very frustrating.
I'm hoping that some of you good people might be able to offer some tips of how you approach lyric writing. I've tried 'brainstorming' in a Word document.on my desktop, but essentially we're back to Noel Gallagher territory..A few interesting images, but not much more....Help! And thanks in advance for anyone who stops by this thread.