How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Rights
You want to write about rights and not sound like a pamphlet read aloud by a caffeinated law student. You want lines that make people f...
How to Write Lyrics About Generations
You want a song that gets the room nodding and texting their friend with a single line. Whether you are writing about your own generati...
How to Write Lyrics About Mentorship
Mentorship is not a magic filter that makes you better overnight. Mentorship is a messy, human, awkward, beautiful transfer of knowledg...
How to Write Lyrics About Decisions
Decisions are drama with a deadline. If you can turn the moment before or just after a choice into a vivid picture, you will have a son...
How to Write Lyrics About Doubt
Doubt is a gold mine for writers who are brave enough to admit they do not have all the answers. It is messy and petty and deeply human...
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 Anger
Want your anger to sound powerful and true instead of petulant and boring. Good. Anger is an emotion that either slaps the listener awa...
How to Write Lyrics About Forgiveness
You want to write a song about forgiveness that feels true not cheesy. You want lines that sting and then soothe. You want a chorus tha...
How to Write Lyrics About Farewell
You want the goodbye to land like a punch and then like a hug. A farewell lyric can make a room go quiet. It can make a listener speak ...
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...