I'm a lyricist looking for musicians to write music to my lyrics.
I am a literary lyricist. | SOCAN-affiliated.
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When Richard Marx wrote Now and Forever, he used only 4.86 words per line. How do I know this? Because I am, first and foremost, a student of lyricism. Always being schooled, re-educated, and humbled by how much of this beautiful craft I still have to learn.
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Many years ago, I took night school classes in creative writing. My employer asked me to work late one evening, and I said no; I had class. He asked what I was studying. When I answered 'creative writing,' he laughed, shook his head, and said, 'What a waste of time.'
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Looking back, it was the best decision I ever made. Nothing has given me more joy than writing.
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I never want to reach the point where I think I have arrived. That would be limiting, crippling. That is why I keep the horizon of improvement in this craft of writing just ahead of me.
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I am searching for this person -- someone who has verified their identity on the Verse-Chorus website.
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A musician-composer. Who has the passion and desire to produce something that matters not only for themselves but to enrich the world in song, in hope, in laughter, and in thought.
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And if you tell me you are always learning, always the student, always excited that something new is on the horizon.
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Then I would like to know you.
Lyricist
John Osinga
St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada
Goals
Find a co-writerGet recorded/performedPublishing deal or sync placement
I write across a wide range of human experience: folk, Gospel, Americana, dark comedy, and narrative lyric.
My strongest work comes from empathy writing: stepping inside lives that aren't mine -- addiction, grief, abuse, loss -- and giving them a voice.
In my personal life, I view the world in duality. Double meanings and metaphors can sometimes be irritating, as my mind is in constant flux, so often rendering them in my mind's eye.
In lyrics, I tend to build in multiple layers. The story you think you're reading is rarely the only one provided to the reader and listener.
I value compression over elaboration, the single line that reframes everything, and storytelling that outlasts the moment it was written in.
My wish -- that in 200 years someone researching John Osinga finds lyricist alongside husband, father, Roomba guy, good person.
Lyricist
John Osinga
St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada
Equipment
My heart -- mind --- time --- coffee --- a computer -- and a great wife who understands.
Lyricist
John Osinga
St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada
Use of AI
"I use AI as a sounding board and editorial partner; it does not write my lyrics. All creative decisions and final wording are my own."
Mood of their music
Bright and upliftingDark and intenseRelaxing and peacefulSad and reflectiveRomantic and sentimentalSerious and intelligentHeavy and powerful
