Sunday, August 5, 2007

Mixing Song Lyrics

Here’s a way to mix song lyrics. Take a given popular song, and replace each rhyme line with the line from another, popular or not so popular song, by searching for the rhyming word (e.g. if the rhyme is “a-a-b-b” then replace the second “a” and “b”). You can use Google and look for [word] lyrics, and you can also use Yahoo Lyrics search. For instance, if the lines from the song are ...

When I want you in my arms
When I want you and your charms

.. then you search for “charms” or “your charms” in other lyrics and pick one of the first lines that pops up. In this case, the song is changed to ...

When I want you in my arms
Brake baby brake, taking me in with all your charms

To list the full example, please sing along the following song with the melody of Elderly Everly Brothers – All I Have To Do Is Dream. (So this is the Nylon version with a little help from the singers Lush, Roy Orbison, Stacie Orrico, Willie Nelson, Carla Thomas, Blue Cantrell and Luther Vandross.)

When I want you in my arms
Brake baby brake, taking me in with all your charms
Whenever I want you all I have to do is dream
How long must I dream?

When I feel blue in the night
Only you can keep us tight
Whenever I want you all I have to do is dream

I can make you mine
Partaking of yesterday’s wine
Anytime night or day
But all I can say is gee whiz
I’m dreaming my life away

I need you so I could die
Why, why, why
Whenever I want you all I have to do is dream
I only see you when I dream my dream

Here’s another song, this one by the Police, with help from Frankie Valli, Local H, Led Zeppelin and DMX. Sing alog to the melody of “Roxanne”:

Roxanne, you don’t have to put on the red light
Those days are over
’Cause I remember what a night.

Roxanne, you don’t have to wear that dress tonight
Walk the streets for money
It’s only stupid me, so stupid me, all-right

Roxanne, you don’t have to put on the red light
Everybody needs the light.
Put on the red light, put on the red light
While sitting at a red light
Put on the red light, oh

I loved you since I knew ya
X gon give it to ya
I have to tell you just how I feel
do you want another boy?
I know my mind is made up
I’m not wearing any make-up
Told you once I won’t tell you again it’s a bad way

Roxanne, you don’t have to put on the red light
Everybody needs the light.
You don’t have to put on the red light
At the red light.

Mixing Song Lyrics by Philipp Lenssen | Comments (7)

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