How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Depression
This is for songwriters who want to write honestly without exploiting pain. You want lyrics that feel true. You want lines that land on...
How to Write Lyrics About Wholeness
Wholeness is not a trophy you win. It is a messy, confusing, occasionally glorious apartment you learn to live in. If your songs want t...
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 Unrequited love
So you have feelings for someone who does not feel the same way. Welcome to the oldest plot twist in human history and the source of at...
How to Write Lyrics About Surrender
Surrender is messy and poetic at the same time. It can be the slow unclenching after a long fight. It can be the quiet handwave that si...
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 Enemies
You want to write about someone who wronged you and make it feel epic, funny, and shareable. You do not want to sound petty or reckless...
How to Write Lyrics About Conformity
Conformity is the quiet villain in most modern rooms. It is the group chat pressure, the dress code that kills your personality, the fa...
How to Write Lyrics About Method
Method is sexy. Method is boring. Method is the thing you do at 3 a.m. to avoid calling your ex. Method is the ritual, the rule set, th...
How to Write Lyrics About Forbidden love
Forbidden love is deliciously dramatic. It is the neon at 2 a.m. the secret playlist you never admit to and the text thread you delete ...