Do you really need lyrics? Music can stand alone. It can say just as much as words. I have passion for both music and words, but I think words are my primary means of expression. That's just how things come out. I've talked to my girlfriend who is a visual artist and the inspiration comes in the same way to her but with visuals as the..essence or body or whatever you'd like to call it, the end... It's a very abstract experience, but it's about something from the external hitting you and striking something inside of you, not something specific, but something meaningful to you, something you want to continue on and feel and something you want to express. It holds more to you than it might for other people. And you feel a new world come in from that one thing that you want to color and explore. It could be scenes in a movie, maybe a line you read in a book, maybe another song. It is expression. If you have the desire just for lyrics of any kind it doesn't seem like it'd be as meaningful and you risk it being somewhat artificial. Maybe it's not how you work and how you're inspired. Music really does not have to have lyrics...
I'm 18 and when I was around 15, my main thing was not lack of inspiration. I had plenty of that, but after the inspiration came I would lose touch with that place inside of me and basically write complete crap down. It took more cognition or perhaps just a different kind than my lyrics do now. I try to stay in touch with the world and that voice inside of me aching to come out and explore
With what I said before, though, I still have a special kind of passion for music...as far as emotional expression comes especially. Like I think it can add a whole new layer to words and I think the joining of sound and words is wonderful...Maybe you can work the opposite way. Feel the music and what it means to you and where it comes from. Have the words come from there and have that as the inspiration
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