I've been in my band for about...5 months now and we're just starting to write original songs. We had been, up until now, just learning covers and playing some tiny little local shows for fun. People really liked what we had done with the covers and urged us to write some stuff, so here we are. I feel as if I need to preface this by saying that I am the vocalist for a metalcore band, which means I scream. Yeah, I know that most of you will stop reading right here, but hopefully some of you will read past this.
I've been having trouble coming up with lyrics for a couple of reasons:
1. I can't help but compare my lyrics to those found in the music I listen to. And when I go to compare them, I find that mine are too simplistic and just don't have enough meaning in them. I never feel like they're worded as they should or that they're cryptic or deep enough. I know that I shouldn't be too concerned with this aspect, considering I am a novice at writing lyrics, but it still bothers me, knowing that my band mates will eventually be seeing these lyrics, and that I will be performing these songs on stage. My band mates have said, for the one set of lyrics that I did write, that they were very good, but I suspect that they were just humoring me because they know I'm a little self-conscious about them.
2. I have a lack of topics to write about. I'm not a very passionate person... about anything. I don't feel as if I have convictions strong enough that they're worth writing about. The lyrics for the one original we do have come from a poem that I wrote for English class this year, based off The Tempest. As lame as that sounds, I found that to be kinda helpful.
I know that there's nothing that you can do, directly, to make me get over these issues, but if there's any advice that you'd be able to give, that'd be great.
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