How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Love
Love songs are easy to feel and hard to write without sounding like a Hallmark card from a sad vending machine. You want something that...
How to Write Lyrics About Form
You want to write a song that hacks the idea of structure and turns it into emotion. Maybe you want to write about paperwork and bureau...
How to Write Lyrics About Theater
You want a song that smells like old velvet, spilled coffee, and a five minute standing ovation. You want lyrics that do more than name...
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 Breaking
You want a song that lands when everything else is falling apart. You want lines that stop a listener mid scroll. You want the chorus t...
How to Write Lyrics About Begin
You want a song that nails what it feels like to start something. Maybe it is the awkward first day, the delicious first kiss, the sobe...
How to Write Lyrics About Friends
Friends are song gold. They laugh with you, they bail you out of bad dates, they ghost your texts for three days then drop a voicemail ...
How to Write Lyrics About Rejection
Rejection is a universal punch to the chest. You have felt it in DMs, at auditions, on a text that never came back, or in an email from...
How to Write Lyrics About Detachment
You want a song that feels like the soft click of a door closing. You want lines that tell listeners they are not alone in the slow sli...
How to Write Lyrics About Recovery from illness
This is not a therapy session but it is a map. Songs about recovery from illness can hit harder than a surprise waterworks scene in a r...