So my pal is making some music and doing lyrics also. but he has ran into dead end and cant think any good or bad way to continue he's lyrics

Wake, up at night
Not a soul, in my sight
Just a case of booze , that i can't loose
that i choose.

Fighting some people around the corner
Drinkin' and shouting : NEVER GET SOBER
Join us or fuck off, party 'til you drop

any ideas how to continue that?

thanks anyway. oh yeah report if theres any mistakes in the lyrics

...the emos in camden town will get in a right strop?

Haha, they're propper cheesy. Lyrics i "write" are too. I mean i dont write them down. I just scream on the spot and some of the words arent even real. Just like good ol' John Tardy does it.

The only lyrics I ever wrote that I didn't erase from existence in embaressment later were based on a really messed up dream I had about Nazis trying to kill me and take over the world. So my tactic is either take the piss and make them crap on purpose, or wait until you get inspired by something. Or you could just make random noises like Dan said, works just as well.

i usually write some bullshit lyrics that symbolically mean things which i try and get people to figure out and they usually come out in really cool sentences

Most of the lyrics I have written have been shit but I usally go for a vocal medley (how many syllable in each line) then I write something I think is funny that fits in.

thats the way to do it

I like lyrics. I like to write them too. With Sick to Death they have changed in style quite a bit. At the start it was all properly 'anarchy up your arse' type stuff but it has generally grown a bit more... intelligent. The titles reflect this, from how songs used to be called things like 'Rumsfeld should Fuck off and Die' (obvious) to (the last lyrics I wrote) 'On Being Cockroaches' (discusses how the cockroach has often been used as a way of describing enemies - NAZIs abouts jews, Hutus about Tutsi's - due to their unwillingness to die and about how such a quality may be necessary in the destructive days ahead).

Here are the lyrics to 'World is Flat' a song about Friedman's free-trade-bum-fuck of a book:

They use Thomas Friedman/ As vindification -
For this globalised system/ New wave of capitalism.

The 'age of information' is the age of exploitation
Breaking borders, creating new wage slaves,
Through the route of 'flattening' they control the planet
Draining the world for material wealth.

Corporate logos/ Spread their tentacles
Controlling consumers/ And it's breaking their workers
Through border/ disintergration
There is no/ heirarchy of nations
Just global exploitation/ and that's a system that's working(?)

But this system, as Friedman admits,
Holds within an unfortunate twist,
This world of united elites -
Is held within a Marxist prophecy.

In early Marxism/ There is a vision
For this globalised system/ To face destruction
(can't remember the line, it's been a while!)
And global intergation/ Means global resistance
Through our frustration/ We construct a conscience
Our ways develop/ At Genoa and the World Social Forum
This world is changing/ There will be a new flattening
We will build our utopia/ On the rubble of a revolution.

For in this construct we see all the cracks,
As it gears itself to collapse
Friedman's world will reach its climax...
... It's sure to crash.

Age of information is the age of mass resistance
Crossing borders, united in rage
Through the routes of 'flattening' we'll control the planet
Resisting the order and constructing a new
Through their exploitation and inherent contradictions
We will rise! We will win...

A lot of it's cliched state smashing rhetoric but I'd like to think it's a bit more intelligent than some of the typical rah-rah punk.

I think I love your band now