Pat Pattison of Berkley School of Music offers a free course through Coursera.com....he's written a few books as well.
Anyhow, one of his techniques is.....envision a 'skeleton' plan for your lyric first off.
One of his ideas is to think of one theme one idea one 'point of the story' and put it in the chorus. Then, in the verses have three seperate example or viewpoints that lead to the chorus.
So, I'm doing some house cleaning and I'm thinking 'interior decorating' design" as the chorus.
V1
House is a mess, needs some work, can't find nada, I must be a dumb-dumb jerk
Chorus
time to organize rearrange nothing strange
Improve the Interior decorate design
V2
My thoughts I confess are in disarray, can't do dada, stumblie, fall away
Chorus
time to organize rearrange nothing strange
Improve the Interior design
V3
Now me happy, now me glad, but my friend she say, I'm confused and sad, so I say
Chorus
time to organize rearrange nothing strange
Improve the Interior design
So yeah....do you think this is a good technique...can you use it? can you think of another twist on interior design? How about some more titles to turn?
Thanks....Bill