How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Peacekeepers
You want a song about peacekeepers that actually lands. You do not want a clumsy slog filled with empty hero talk or military poster li...
How to Write Lyrics About Friendship
Friendship songs are the social glue of playlists. They make people think about inside jokes, late night drives, the friend who always ...
How to Write Lyrics About Villains
You want a song about a villain that people sing on the tram and whisper about in group chats. You want danger, charisma, and a line th...
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 Monologue
You want the kind of lyric that makes a listener whisper the line to a stranger on the subway. You want an interior voice that reads li...
How to Write Lyrics About Construction
Yes you can write an emotional banger about concrete, chainsaws, or scaffolding. Construction is full of muscle, mess, small rituals, a...
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 Home
Home is the smell of burned toast at 7 a.m. The key under the mat. The quiet you carry like a bruise. Writing about home is deliciously...
How to Write Lyrics About Experience
Writing lyrics about experience is the short path from a memory to a song that punches the chest and makes strangers text their ex. You...
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...