Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.
Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.
A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.
I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.
I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work. I'll sit back and listen to it, and I'll just concentrate on what kind of feeling it gives me. My goal writing the lyrics is to not disrupt that feeling.
If you're supposed to be doing something, the spirits will come and help you. They have helped me out with lines I shouldn't have known, chords I shouldn't have known. Every once in a while I get lines from somewhere, and I think, I better write this down.
When it comes to lyrics, I just write down a lot of things, and only a very tiny fraction of it, I think, is any good.
I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.