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At the moment I'm writing songs using existing lyrics from my older songs, but with completely different chords, melodies, arrangements and what not.

It's whatever you want to call it.

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I'd say..... partial rewrite.

Or complete rewrite depending on what's been altered.

Composers and lyricists have been borrowing from themselves for hundreds of years.You have not come up with anything new — except that it's new to you.


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