Sodajerker on songwriting

Sodajerker is a songwriting team from Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Founded by co-writers Simon Barber and Brian O’Connor, Sodajerker is the creative outlet for two friends raised on the celebrated songbooks of such luminaries as Lennon and McCartney, Bacharach and David, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Goffin and King and The Chic Organisation. Like the profession from which they take their name, Sodajerker use their hard-won skills to conjure artistry from the everyday. Their songs have been heard on radio stations around the world and on a number of film soundtracks. Simon and Brian are also the co-hosts of the Sodajerker On Songwriting podcast, a programme featuring interviews with some of the world’s most successful songwriters. 

 

 

 

 

 

Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:

SOMETHING THAT SOUNDS LIKE A SONG

Radio plays 
No. 1 hit 
But is there really 
Anything to it 

Melody flows 
On repeat 
Underneath   
Generic beat 

Soaring up 
Crashing down 
Missing meaning 
It's only sound 

Don't listen hard, and don't listen long? 
To something that sounds like a song 

The production 
Is delicious 
Only a little 
Repetitious 

Is the rift 
Stuck in your head 
Is it important 
What was that he said? 

People listen all day long 
To something that sounds like a song 

Pause for a moment 
To take it apart 
Peel back the pieces 
Is there a heart? 

A chorus to praise 
Wisdom in verse? 
Will it change things 
For better or worse? 

Fighting injustice, righting a wrong? 
Or just something that sounds like a song? 

Make a video 
Cover your traces 
Distract with images 
Lots of pretty faces 

Don't listen hard, and Don't listen long 
To something that sounds like a song 
Something that sounds like a song 
Something that sounds like a song

 

UNNECESSARY MUSIC

The world is saturated with songs 
And we all just nod along 
They have the patter and the beat 
But they're whitebread food to eat 

Unnecessary music 
Why do we produce it? 
Cos it is more fun to do 
Than it is to listen to 

Unnecessary music 
Perhaps it's therapeutic 
But they say a burden shared 
Is a burden doubled 

No idea in there was conceived 
The embryo can't be believed 
It has a head and arms and legs 
But take its pulse you'll find it's dead 

Unnecessary music 
Why do we produce it? 
Cos it is more fun to do 
Than it is to listen to 

Unnecessary music 
Perhaps it's therapeutic 
But they say a burden shared 
Is a burden doubled 

What spurred you on to finish it? 
Put layers on the thinnish bit 
When you had half-written the song? 
Why'd you decide to carry on? 

Unnecessary music 
Why do we produce it? 
Cos it is more fun to do 
Than it is to listen to 

Unnecessary music 
Perhaps it's therapeutic 
But they say a burden shared 
Is a burden doubled