I never really was into songs lyrics. The voice and how it goes can really add to the music, but then there's also a lot of songs who seems to be trying too fucking hard to sell a story at the expense of it being musical and it's like, ehh?

I always found it weird that people tell me they can't listen to a song without lyrics, old school video game music, or a song in another language. It's like... it just needs to sound nice bruh

And then there's shoegaze
"What are the lyrics?"... "Who the fuck knows?"

Truly the perfect genre

@coolboymew I suspect English just isn't a good language for music.

I'm going to rhyme "baby" with "maybe."

@PonyPanda @coolboymew it's better to do near rhymes most of the time. it's good to have rhymes in the middle of lines as well, which is what eminem is really good at and why people like his flow so much. he's the most notable example, anyway. if you only rhyme the last word on each line and nothing else, especially if it the exact same word as a previous line, you sound cheesy/dumb.

here's an example of what that would look like in practice:

"baby, you make me feel so crazy
stuck in the daises, i'm spacing
all the things i held onto

lately, heartache is what i'm maintaining
all that i'm feigning, erase me
are you gonna' make me choose?"

you have three words that use long "A" and "E" sounds in the first line, then "daisy" rhymes with "crazy" but it's not at the end of the line, instead being another word with those long vowels that doesn't technically rhyme. the stanza ends on a word that doesn't rhyme with anything else to add a bit of pizzazz but it all comes back around when the formula is repeated.

@beardalaxy @coolboymew that's cool slam poetry/rap but... I struggle to think what melody could accompany other than rap beats.

@PonyPanda @coolboymew i had a melody in mind but i can't exactly convey that over text lol. it's some emo shit lol.