How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Innocence
Innocence is not naive like a vacuum sealed in plastic. Innocence is a fragile muscle that flexes when we see something for the first t...
How to Write Lyrics About Lyric
You want to write a song about writing songs. That sounds delightfully narcissistic and also brilliant. It is the perfect move for when...
How to Write Lyrics About Detachment
You want a song that feels like the soft click of a door closing. You want lines that tell listeners they are not alone in the slow sli...
How to Write Lyrics About Begin
You want a song that nails what it feels like to start something. Maybe it is the awkward first day, the delicious first kiss, the sobe...
How to Write Lyrics About Collaboration
Collaboration is messy. Collaboration is magical. Collaboration is the reason half your best lines show up in a group chat at 2 a.m. Wr...
How to Write Lyrics About Art
You want a song about art that does not sound like a grad school paper. You want language that feels alive, not airless. You want liste...
How to Write Lyrics About Responsibility
Responsibility. The word makes some people tighten their jaw and others reach for a paper plate and napkin tablecloth to avoid the foll...
How to Write Lyrics About Sound
You want your words to make ears do a double take. You want listeners to hear the traffic, the thunder, the text tone, or the crowd roa...
How to Write Lyrics About Regret
Regret is the emotional duct tape of songwriting. It holds a story together and also makes you wince every time you move. If you want l...
How to Write Lyrics About Youth
You want lyrics that feel like a Polaroid thrown at the wall with a Sharpie note on it. You want lines that smack of high school hallwa...