How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Forests
Forests are big, weird, and excellent metaphors. They are also full of sensory details that make lyrics feel real without sounding like...
How to Write Lyrics About Patience
Patience is not boring. Patience is dramatic waiting with better lighting. Whether your song is about waiting for love, waiting for you...
How to Write Lyrics About Irony
Irony is the delicious salt you add to a lyric to make it bite. When it works, listeners laugh and then feel something sharp enough to ...
How to Write Lyrics About Hope
You do not need to be a motivational poster to write a song about hope. Hope in songs is not sugarcoating. Hope is a posture. It is swe...
How to Write Lyrics About Love
Love songs are easy to feel and hard to write without sounding like a Hallmark card from a sad vending machine. You want something that...
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 Building
Want to write lyrics that nail it when you sing about building stuff? Whether you mean a house, a band, a career, a friendship, or a wa...
How to Write Lyrics About Idleness
You want a song that makes being bored feel cinematic. You want to turn the couch potato hour into a believable scene that people nod a...
How to Write Lyrics About Recovery
You want to write recovery lyrics that feel true and not performative. You want lines that are raw but not self indulgent. You want a c...
How to Write Lyrics About Chaos
If chaos had a mixtape it would be loud, messy, and impossible to ignore. You want lyrics that smell like smoke and coffee, lyrics that...