Lyrics Writing: Super Crazy!

So I'm not really a person who's into music or poetry but with Dark Wave, the first book of the Darkbeat Quintet series, I have to pretend that I'm one or both.  I mean, it kinda defeats the purpose of writing about rock gods and there's not even a single song featured in the story.  Other uninformed people might say that I should have just borrowed some excerpts from famous songs but being sued for stealing of intellectual property is a risk that any writer (aspiring or not) should not take. Besides, I want my characters to have their own identity rather than have them labeled by readers as the book character version of "Beatles" or "Rolling Stone" or "Linkin' Park" or whatever band that they can associate with the lyrics of the song that I've chosen to include in the story.  If I'm going to feature the lyric excerpts of "In The End" in Dark Wave, then what are the chances of my readers immediately saying that the book is a retelling of  Linkin' Park's story or something like that?

Yes, I admit that the characters of Dark Wave or the whole Darkbeat series are inspired from different rockstars but I'm trying very hard to make them as their own person, if that even makes sense. If I'm going to ask you a question right now about what makes you fall in love with a musician, every one of you will have different answers.  But surely, some of you will respond that as long as the lyrics of the song resonate with you, then the singer immediately gets a permanent spot on your "Favorite Singers List." This goes to show that aside from a rockstar's looks, voice, the song's melody, and whatever, the lyrics of his/her songs are equally as important to set him/her apart from other rockstars.  And that's the reason why I'm busting my ass off creating lyrics for Dark Wave so my readers would feel that my rockstar characters really exist.

But writing the lyrics is not the end of my problem.  I'm also apprehensive that the lyrics that I've managed to write are not only incomprehensible but are also cheesy that my readers can't help but gag as they're reading the story. LOL. I'm apologizing in advance if that'll ever happen in the future. I've already tried my best to tone down my tendency to write melodramatic words so that counts for something, right?

So that's my update for today.  What about you? 

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