2018: Lyrics & Poems
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A collection of over 70 rhymes, written as song lyrics but, for now and the most part, missing a musical melody.
Andrew Robert Chapman
Having earned an upper-second-class BSc Honours Degree in Computing Science from Stafford University (the then Staffordshire Polytechnic), I worked for several English manufacturing companies before accepting an offer of work in Germany in 1991, where I have been living and working for several blue chip financial institutions based in Frankfurt am Main till this day. As a result of my career I wrote and self-published “Cobol: Optimised and Maintainable Application Programming” in 2003 and “JCL – STEP by STEP” in 2008. In 2012 I was asked to write lyrics for several rock band projects, an adventure which led to the role of singer/songwriter in WildScreW and the composition of several hundred lyrics, the majority of which are patiently waiting to be put to music or self-published.
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History
My late, great-aunty Jean was an avid fan of literature, language and especially poetry. Nevertheless, despite her persistence, cajoling and seemingly endless off-by-heart recitals from her many favourite and famous bard’s literary masterpieces, and although I did possess an unhealthy interest and certain talent for English language and literature in school, I always considered my sister the more gifted poet and artist and myself more adroit in the (especially then new computer) sciences.
Sure, in my late school years and youth I’d occasionally pen a poem, compose a clerihew or write a rhyme, but always for specific purposes: love letters in the main but also a couple of songs for a my
schooldays band Guillotine
. But, as demands from career and life’s many other interests and distractions gained the upper hand, my literary efforts were restricted to computer program documentation. But there was always a book burning away in the back of my head and, after several aborted attempts at fiction, I decided around 1998 that I’d be best writing about something I know, which resulted in two self-published technical books in 2003 and 2008.
These tomes combined with (too) many years of unsuccessfully trying to master the German language, resulted in me falling heavily back in love with my native tongue. As essays are not my forte and technical reference books a labour of four or five years, I began writing poems and rhymes for my own pleasure and therapy.
My jottings and ideas were randomly scattered about various electronic devices, books and scrap pieces of paper and, in 2010, I stumbled across the term blogging and specifically WORDPRESS and decided the free application was also a perfect, practical and localized way to store and work on all my poems and lyrics.
In 2012, and quite coincidentally to my personal rhyming efforts on WORDPRESS, I was asked, solely because of my native English skills, if I was capable of writing lyrics to original songs melodies. Luckily for me I decided to blow my own trumpet and confidently replied that I could. I thus found myself writing lyrics for several band projects, one of which was to lead to the formation of the rock band WildScreW and culminate with the production of a studio CD, "Writing On The Wall"*, at the end of 2016 with myself as vocalist.
Furthermore, the CD’s title song was to become a finalist in the 19th Great American Song Contest in 2018.
*Paperback readers must navigate themselves manually to the hyperlinks embedded directly in the eBOOK by referring to the "Contacts and Links" section, or use the QR codes, where all relevant hyperlinks can be found, including the location of any audio files.
Method
Before I started to marry my lyrics to musical melodies I used to take an inordinate amount of time fettling my rhymes so that, at least to my mind, the metre, the rhythm, the pace, the meaning, everything which I considered vital to the flow and comprehension, was as close to perfection as I could engineer.
I was effectively writing poems.
I was quickly to learn, however, that as soon as a poem is put to music, the strict rules which applied to it can be relaxed or even completely ignored. The poem’s words, which now wrap themselves around a musical melody, can, indeed sometimes must, be shortened or lengthened by the articulation of the vocalist in such a way which can only be conveyed to a reader by linking the words to sheet music. A poem’s written form alone is not enough to convey this, although I sometimes attempt to highlight such areas (to myself) by breaking up words with hyphens or compressing them to phonetics. Furthermore music producers and studio requirements place further demands on a song’s structure, which often force the songwriter to perform last minute lyrical rewrites and polishing.
Thus it was I decided, after my experience with WildScreW, that I would purposely leave all my poetic efforts in a much rawer and less-polished state. Should the occasion arise that such a poem be put to music, then that would be the time to go the extra mile and invest the final effort refining, polishing and honing the words.
Over the years I have also discovered that it is best to literally dump to (digital) paper what ever words and ideas are coursing through one’s mind: Effectively not applying a filter. When I started writing poetry I too often thought of reasons why I didn’t want to progress with whatever idea had pushed its way to the front of my mind. For myself that invariably led to a writer’s block, as my work on a different idea would be hindered with interfering thoughts about the themes of the poem I’d decided not to progress with. By starting (although not necessarily finishing) any ideas which come into my head, my mind appears to find closure and is free to move unencumbered onto the next idea.
The downside of my method is there will be a certain tally of my poems which are in (sometimes dire) need of polish, fettling and some which even