How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Mood
You want your song to feel like a room. Not just a collection of lines and chords. You want the listener to enter a place that smells a...
How to Write Lyrics About Union
You want a song about union that actually lands. Maybe union means two people signing a lease together. Maybe union means a picket line...
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 Truce
You want a truce song that actually sounds human. You want a chorus that can be shouted in a car or texted at 2 a.m. You want verses th...
How to Write Lyrics About Judgment
Judgment makes great fuel for a song. It is sharp, honest, and often funny when you are brave enough to look at the mirror and the grou...
How to Write Lyrics About Inspiration
You want a lyric that wakes someone up from their phone scroll and makes them consider getting off the couch. You want a chorus that fe...
How to Write Lyrics About Diversity
You want a song that counts and does not come off like a performative Instagram post. You want lyrics that show real lives, honest comp...
How to Write Lyrics About Learning
Learning is messy, funny, embarrassing, and often the best fuel for a song. Whether you are writing about learning a new chord, learnin...
How to Write Lyrics About Literature
You love books and you want songs that sound like they read your diary. Good news. Literature is an unlimited buffet of emotion, detail...
How to Write Lyrics About Old vs. New
You want a lyric that smells like cedar boxes and fresh plastic at the same time. You want listeners to feel the ache of what was and t...