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Writing a song for a friend, it sounds like a love song :/

  • 29-12-2013 12:49am
    #1
    AliceRyan
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭


    So my guitar teacher knows how much I love writing books and poetry. He set me the task of writing a song over the holidays.

    I tried writing 1 for one of my best friends. She moved to another country a few years ago. We are still very close but I really miss her.

    I thought I would write the song about her but I feel it sounds like it could be a love song. Should I bin it? How do you write a song for a friend without it turning into a love song?


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  • #2
    tusk
    Registered Users Posts: 5,882 ✭✭✭tusk


    Friendship is love, no?

    If you sit down to write a song about your friend, who you miss, and what comes out is a love song, then is that not how you feel, and really that's what it's all about... however you end up expressing what's in your heart/soul doesn't matter as long as what you've got down is real.

    Just because it sounds like a love song, doesn't mean you're in love with her.

    Not great advice maybe, but i've written songs in the past with a similar outcome and to date, they remain some of my favorites.


  • #3
    Evil Robot
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭Evil Robot


    Go for it, man. Don't think, just write from the heart. You don't have to be in love to write a song that you love the girl.


  • #4
    souls
    Registered Users Posts: 131 ✭✭souls


    Evil Robot wrote: »
    Go for it, man. Don't think, just write from the heart. You don't have to be in love to write a song that you love the girl.

    Evil Robot is right. Write from the heart..wait a minute evil robot doesn't have a heart.. he's just wires,and parts more twisted and evil than man. disregard


  • #5
    Rory Gallagher
    Registered Users Posts: 292 ✭✭Rory Gallagher


    Here's a good song about a platonic relationship of friendship.Just to prove it can be done.



  • #6
    MyNanoh
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭MyNanoh


    Is it a big deal if a song turns into a love song, or sounds like it?
    If she knows you, she would understand what's the real meaning of the song.

    Just do it, and you'll see after that (;


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  • #7
    Taajsgpm
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 65 ✭✭Taajsgpm


    AliceRyan wrote: »
    So my guitar teacher knows how much I love writing books and poetry. He set me the task of writing a song over the holidays.

    I tried writing 1 for one of my best friends. She moved to another country a few years ago. We are still very close but I really miss her.

    I thought I would write the song about her but I feel it sounds like it could be a love song. Should I bin it? How do you write a song for a friend without it turning into a love song?

    So let it be a love song , you love her, but if its just a friend dont telll her its about her, the songs most of the time write themselves let it flow


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