How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Friendship
Friendship songs are the social glue of playlists. They make people think about inside jokes, late night drives, the friend who always ...
How to Write Lyrics About Birds
Yes you can write a song about a pigeon and make people cry or laugh in equal measure. Birds are tiny emotional machines. They carry mo...
How to Write Lyrics About Explanation
You want to explain something in a song without sounding like a lecture from your aunt at Thanksgiving. Maybe you need to apologize. Ma...
How to Write Lyrics About Detail
You want lyrics that feel like someone living inside a movie of your song. You want lines that make listeners nod and say I was there t...
How to Write Lyrics About Fitness
You want lyrics that make people sprint faster, lift heavier, and post sweaty selfies with pride. Whether you write for yourself, an In...
How to Write Lyrics About Lies
Lies are juicy. Lies are wrecking balls. Lies make people look bad in bathroom mirror videos and fuel stadium chants. If you want to wr...
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 Tone
Tone is the attitude your lyric wears when it walks into a room. Tone tells the listener if they are being told a secret, roasted, sedu...
How to Write Lyrics About Symbols
You want a line that hits like a memory. You want a symbol that does heavy lifting without you explaining it like a clumsy college lect...
How to Write Lyrics About Optimism
You want hope that does not sound like a fortune cookie. You want optimism that feels human not preachy. You want lines people remember...