The songwriting forum needs a thread so here it is.

Do you write the lyrics first and then put fitting music to it? Do you write music first and then put fitting lyrics to it? Do you have a method of coming up with both simultaneously? I have done all of these and the results are not better with one method than they are with another. I will say that for myself, the method I find easiest is to mess around on the guitar until I find something that I like and then try to think of another type of riff that would flow neatly after it until a whole song is done. Then I listen to it and think of what kind of scene in a movie this music would fit to and write lyrics that match that scene in my mind.

How about you?