How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
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 Dialogue
You want your songs to sound like conversations people would screenshot and send to their friends. You want dialogue that snaps with ch...
How to Write Lyrics About Society
You want to write songs about the world you live in without sounding like a lecture from your uncle at Thanksgiving. You want lines tha...
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...
How to Write Lyrics About Pause
Pause is a tiny honest saboteur. It sits in all the places songs avoid talking about. It is the breath you hold when someone says we ne...
How to Write Lyrics About Environmentalism
You want a song that hits like a wake up call without sounding like a guilt trip from a very smug science teacher. You want lines that ...
How to Write Lyrics About Attitude
Want lyrics that snap, burn, and then wink at the listener? Attitude in a song is not a mood board. Attitude is a personality with an a...
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 Pets
Your dog stole your sandwich and your heart. Your cat wakes you at three AM to demand tribute. Your parrot tells better stories than yo...
How to Write Lyrics About Focus
You want a song that holds attention like a magnet. You want lines that make listeners feel less scattered and more seen. You want a ch...