Nonsense Words! Did you know Paul McCartney's "Yesterday", the song most often recorded by other artists (over 3000 times) was originally titled "Scrambled Egg"? Maybe you already know that Mr Mc woke up humming the melody after a particularly fruitful dream (song grossed in excess of 50 million) but what is less well known is P M's habit of using nonsense words to work with while he was developing his melodies! Nonsense noises and phrases that he would replace afterwards with real words after the heat of creativity had died down.
SO THE NEXT TIME YOU GO TO WRITE A SONG TRY IT! Play your melodies and while you do mouth out ridiculous nonsense! Words that sound half french - half dutch slang - and half 12 Century Japanese (maths was not my strong point).
Create emotional sounding words that have no real meaning but somehow fit inside the melody! Sometimes you can seriously spoil your flow by trying to use both the left and right brain simultaneously - by getting hung up on literal left brain meaning while you are trying to create intuitive right brain feeling stuff - like a melody.
By allowing the word sounds to APPEAR out of the music - and by finding great word correlations afterwards - you will be creating a stronger link between the melody and the words.
After all - this IS what the great songs are.
Musical phrases and lyrical utterances so intrinsically linked that pulling them apart is like committing an act of sacrilege.
Think of some of them - DUm dum Dummer - Old Man River.
Dum D'Dum - Yesterday Dum Dum - Hey Jude etc...
you get my gist! GO AND TRY IT - Discretion is advisable! So make sure you close the door whilst talking to yourself in gibberish!