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![Today we're looking at the creative scribblings of musicians. First up - Faris Badwan of The Horrors, who explains his lyric writing process thus: "You can never tell if you like [a lyric] until you've had a while to decide. I have the '24 hour rule' - if you write something down and it doesn't make you cringe the next morning then you're alright."](http://static.nme.com/images/gallery/lyricahorrosCHR041.jpg)
A peek inside rock star lyric books
Today we're looking at the creative scribblings of musicians. First up - Faris Badwan of The Horrors, who explains his lyric writing process thus: "You can never tell if you like [a lyric] until you've had a while to decide. I have the '24 hour rule' - if you write something down and it doesn't make you cringe the next morning then you're alright."
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