How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Celebration of life
You want a song that honors living joy or the memory of someone without sounding cheesy or like a Hallmark fever dream. You want lines ...
How to Write Lyrics About Setting
As a songwriter, you know that crafting lyrics that transport your listeners to a specific time and place is a powerful way to connect ...
How to Write Lyrics About Consequences
You want a lyric that lands like a truth bomb. You want people to sing it in the shower and immediately feel something messy, human, an...
How to Write Lyrics About Youth
You want lyrics that feel like a Polaroid thrown at the wall with a Sharpie note on it. You want lines that smack of high school hallwa...
How to Write Lyrics About Inaction
You want a song about doing nothing that actually does something to the listener. That is the paradox and it is delicious. Songs about ...
How to Write Lyrics About Critique
Critique is messy, personal, and gold for songwriting. Whether someone told you your voice is thin, a producer said your chorus is bori...
How to Write Lyrics About Free will
You want to sing about the big choice without sounding like a philosophy major with a guitar. Free will can be heavy. It can also be el...
How to Write Lyrics About Heroes
You want a song that makes someone want to stand on a chair and cry while throwing their fist in the air. You want a chorus that can be...
How to Write Lyrics About Power
You want a lyric that hits like a mic drop. You want lines that make people stand straighter, or that make someone who wronged you squi...
How to Write Lyrics About Idleness
You want a song that makes being bored feel cinematic. You want to turn the couch potato hour into a believable scene that people nod a...