How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
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 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 Cities
Writing a song about a city is like translating an entire urban life into three minutes and four lines that people can sing in the show...
How to Write Lyrics About Resilience
You want lyrics that hit like a high five to the soul. Not a sad therapist high five. A real honest high five that says you survived th...
How to Write Lyrics About Symmetry
Symmetry is attractive in your biology and in your songwriting. It makes the brain nod, the neck tilt, the playlist repeat. If you want...
How to Write Lyrics About Simile
Similes are the secret sugar that makes lyrics taste like something you remember and hum in the shower. If you sing like a thrift shop ...
How to Write Lyrics About Fairness
Fairness is a mood and a magnifying glass. It can be the low simmer of a relationship argument. It can be the roar on a protest sign. I...
How to Write Lyrics About Birds
Yes you can write a song about a pigeon and make people cry or laugh in equal measure. Birds are tiny emotional machines. They carry mo...
How to Write Lyrics About Legacy
You want a lyric that feels like a time capsule and a mic drop at the same time. Legacy is the kind of theme that either becomes sentim...
How to Write Lyrics About Success
You want a success song that lands like a high five and not like a humble brag from a motivational poster. You want lines people can te...