How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Loyalty
You want lyrics that make people nod, cry, and call their ride or die immediately. Loyalty is a heavy word that can be sentimental, sav...
How to Write Lyrics About Aging
Growing older is messy and hilarious and dark and sacred all at once. You want a lyric that makes someone laugh and then choke up in th...
How to Write Lyrics About Togetherness
You want people to feel like they are in the room with you. You want lines that make couples squeeze hands. You want a chorus that beco...
How to Write Lyrics About Intelligence
Want to rap about smarts without sounding like a TED talk or a smug encyclopedia? Good. Intelligence is a juicy topic for songwriting. ...
How to Write Lyrics About Escape
Escape is one of those feelings that owns a Spotify playlist and a therapist waiting room at the same time. Everyone wants to slip out ...
How to Write Lyrics About Followership
You want a lyric that captures loyalty, crowd energy, obsession, or the weird power play of followers and leaders. Maybe you want a sta...
How to Write Lyrics About Rights
You want to write about rights and not sound like a pamphlet read aloud by a caffeinated law student. You want lines that make people f...
How to Write Lyrics About Order
You want a song about order that feels human. You do not want a lecture from a labeled file folder. You want visceral images, cunning l...
How to Write Lyrics About Satire
You want to be funny and savage without sounding like a mean clown. Satire in song is tricky because music makes people feel first and ...
How to Write Lyrics About Addiction
You want a song that tells the messy truth without turning pain into porn. You want lines that cut, but not lines that exploit. You wan...