2006 - projects, demos and the birth of Lyrics For Fun

Even though too much things didn't leave my pen that year,
that winter still yielded a few things for the vaults.
A major step, for me at least, was taken in February,
when I created my first blog.

It wasn't even planned to be one of those "diary"-type ones,
but simply a place on the web where I could publish my own lyrics,
new ones as well as things from the past. And yeah, even though
it was named KimsLyrics right from the start, today it goes
under the name of Lyrics For Fun. Not really serious maybe, but hey,
lyrics writing and other writing/creating should be spontanius from time to time.
But anyway, let's move on.

That spring was actually quite interesting. I started working on another project
in Swedish, not really meant to be a 100% successor to Broken Hearts Cafe,
the thing made the year before, but still something that would carry on the new-
found spirit of writing in Swedish again. Mind you, before Broken, I hadn't done
anything in Swedish since 1993, so I figured it was high time.
Nevertheless, it started out pretty ok, things were coming out fine,
so I guess I didn't, and still don't, know why that project
didn't became anything. Maybe even I thought it was getting
a little too cheesy and a little too much Gessle-ish
(Per Gessle, songwriter and lead singer of Gyllene Tider,
songwriter and sometimes singer of Roxette and also being
famous for a few solo records. Google and Spotify are your friends),
to be all satisfied with it and able to go on working with it.
Title was planned to be Att Se Sanningen I Vitögat (approx.
To Look The Truth Straight In The Eye) by the way.

I guess the replacement sketching didn't result in
that much better things either. Anyway, the Swedish project,
which included a fair bit of English in the end, was made up
by another cover-based collection. This time it was a pure
dedication to Gyllene Tider and Roxette. As a matter of fact,
even some of Gessle's solo stuff got a small corner of its own.
Title went "One Moment, Please" by the way. Simple, useful
phrase, that one. Even the buildup followed that easy way.
One disc with what some would refer to as "hits", and one
with what I would refer to as "those hidden gems".
All set and done.

Despite the previous summer's adventures in the
writer's corner, or maybe because of the same,
nothing much really happened in the summer of '06.
Wrote a few things for the vaults, but most of all
I was busy on other levels. Like combining work at a
second hand-store/project for unemployed youths.
Must have been one of the first times during the later years
that I felt comfortable around other people and being available
to totally let my guards fall. Although I had two weeks of vacation
there, nothing really took shape. Did write a little here,
a little there, and some went up between the flashbacks on the blog.

That autumn mostly went in the same soft style, except that
those late nights did contribute with a little more intensified
activity. I also, as has become standard, started looking at
those older demos and things that never became anything,
and among those found the christmas demos from 2002
that never were let out in the open.

So I guess that was the moment when plans of a christmas project
started taking shape. For once though, I didn't touch the demo lyrics
for one single second, just letting them take as much place as they
wanted. While they weren't as perfect as they could've been at that time,
they were still fitting that feeling I wanted the project to have.
Memories, things from the past, emotions, it all was there
right from the start. I guess those demos got the creds for
influencing and inspiring me to do a thing like that.
Spontanious, soft and humble. Of course, there weren't
all ballads. The title track (Candlelights & Memories) was written
as a midtempo-type of track. Of course I couldn't keep my hands
away from the goodie-bag of covers either.

I even had gotten myself a MIDI-keyboard earlier that year
and so I did a small sketch-version of the whole project.
Too bad, the thing didn't became reality, as that computer
went out the window at the end of that year. What was good enough
was that I had the tasteful thought of printing all the lyrics
before that happened.

I guess the short remainder of that year went pretty easy.
Compiled together a project based on the "2006-lyrics"
I had published on the blog over the year and named
the whole plethora "Nowhere To Go". Cause, frankly,
I really had no idea where 2007 would take me.