How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Verse
Verses are the scenes. Verses are the receipts. Verses are the slow burn that makes the chorus feel earned. If the chorus is the headli...
How to Write Lyrics About Peace
You want a song about peace that does not sound like a pamphlet from 1972. You want lines that land like a warm blanket not like a lect...
How to Write Lyrics About Sacrifice
Sacrifice is a lyric writer gold mine. It contains pain and pride, regret and glory, and the kind of messy human detail that makes list...
How to Write Lyrics About Soliloquy
Do you want lyrics that sound like a secret spilled into an empty room? Soliloquy lyrics are the deliciously awkward cousin of confessi...
How to Write Lyrics About Meter
Meter is the secret skeleton of every song. It is the invisible pulse that makes a line feel like it fits or like it fell asleep on the...
How to Write Lyrics About Disagreement
Arguments make visceral songs. They put two people in a room with too many feelings and not enough punctuation. A fight can be cinemati...
How to Write Lyrics About Randomness
You want a song that sounds like your brain at 2 a.m. scrolling memes, but also like the kind of song people put on a playlist and sing...
How to Write Lyrics About Journey
You want a song that makes people pack a bag emotionally and start walking either literally or in their heads. Whether your protagonist...
How to Write Lyrics About Redemption
You want a redemption song that feels honest and earned. You want lyrics that do not sound like apology notes with a chorus. You want a...
How to Write Lyrics About Comrades
Comrades are messy, heroic, petty, loyal, annoying, and often the best part of your story. You want lyrics that make listeners remember...