How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Satire
You want to be funny and savage without sounding like a mean clown. Satire in song is tricky because music makes people feel first and ...
How to Write Lyrics About Diplomacy
Diplomacy is sexy when you write it right. Think velvet gloves with brass knuckles inside. Think whispered deals in hotel lobbies and a...
How to Write Lyrics About Metaphor
Metaphor is the secret sauce that makes a lyric feel smarter than it actually is. You want listeners to feel something and to repeat a ...
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 Partnership
Partnership songs are everywhere. Whether you write about lovers, bandmates, business allies, or friends who bail you out at 4 a.m., pa...
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 Uniqueness
You want a song that says I am unlike anyone else and makes people nod their heads like a tiny forest of bobble heads. You want listene...
How to Write Lyrics About Storms
Storms are drama you can sing about without apologizing for the melodrama. They are loud, messy, cinematic, and everyone has stood in o...
How to Write Lyrics About Hope
You do not need to be a motivational poster to write a song about hope. Hope in songs is not sugarcoating. Hope is a posture. It is swe...
How to Write Lyrics About Skepticism
You want to write smart songs that feel suspicious without sounding pretentious. You want the lyric to lean forward with doubt and stil...