How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Society
You want to write songs about the world you live in without sounding like a lecture from your uncle at Thanksgiving. You want lines tha...
How to Write Lyrics About Joy
Joy is not a smile you paste on. It is a world you invite the listener into. If your lyric sounds like an emoji caption, it will land l...
How to Write Lyrics About Stillness
You want quiet that screams without a single shout. Stillness in a song is not the absence of motion. Stillness is motion turned inward...
How to Write Lyrics About Performance
You want lyrics that taste like the stage. You want lines that smell of sweat and smoke machines and still hit like poetry when the cro...
How to Write Lyrics About Relationships
You want a relationship song that actually lands. You want lines that feel like a text you should not have sent but did anyway. You wan...
How to Write Lyrics About Foolishness
You want a song that makes people laugh and then feel something gnaw at the back of their throat. You want lines that read like a drunk...
How to Write Lyrics About Fortitude
Fortitude is not a motivational poster line. Fortitude is the messy, sweaty, stubborn thing you do when everything around you says stop...
How to Write Lyrics About Nature’s beauty
You want listeners to smell pine needles through earbuds. You want a line that makes someone pause their doomscroll and stare at a sunb...
How to Write Lyrics About Magic
You want to write a song about magic that does not sound like a middle school Dungeons and Dragons fanfic read aloud by a fortune cooki...
How to Write Lyrics About Isolation
You want to write about being alone and not sound like a Hallmark card for sad people. You want lines that land like a truth, images th...