How to Write Lyrics About Life Situations
How to Write Lyrics About Nightmares
Nightmares are material. They show up uninvited at three in the morning, throw up a surreal movie on your eyelids, and then vanish with...
How to Write Lyrics About Healthy Eating
Yes you can write a song about kale that does not sound like a PTA powerpoint. You can make a chorus about quinoa that gets stuck in a ...
How to Write Lyrics About Underwater Exploration
You want to write a song that drags a listener beneath the surface and holds them there. You want salt on the tongue and pressure in th...
How to Write Lyrics About Climate Change
You want a song that punches climate anxiety in the face and then hands your listener a tissue and a plan. You want words that are urge...
How to Write Lyrics About Hard Work
You want a song that honors the grind without sounding like a motivational poster. You want lines that make the person driving at 3 a m...
How to Write Lyrics About Instruments And Gear
Yes you can write a love song to a guitar pedal and still be emotionally real. Writing about instruments and studio gear gives you a ri...
How to Write Lyrics About Conflict Resolution
Arguing makes for dramatic songs. Making up makes for unforgettable ones. You want lyrics that capture the sting, the ridiculous pettin...
How to Write Lyrics About Lyricism And Poetry
You want to write a song about writing songs without sounding like a college essay or a sad Tumblr post. You want lines that are self a...
How to Write Lyrics About Secrets
Secrets are songwriting catnip. They pull listeners in because humans are addicted to knowing what they are not supposed to know. Wheth...
How to Write Lyrics About Cooking And Food
Food is the quickest route to a listener's gut and a songwriter's ego. A good food lyric can be sweet, bitter, messy, gross, sexy, nost...