How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Rain
Rain is free drama that falls from the sky. It arrives with sound, smell, texture and mood. It gives songwriters a ready made scene ful...
How to Write Lyrics About Villains
You want a song about a villain that people sing on the tram and whisper about in group chats. You want danger, charisma, and a line th...
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 Finish
Finish is the little word that carries the whole apocalypse and the quiet relief at once. Writing about finish is a sweet spot for song...
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...
How to Write Lyrics About Gratitude
Gratitude songs do not have to be saccharine, boring, or sound like a motivational poster reading itself aloud. You can write gratitude...
How to Write Lyrics About Division
You want a song about division that hits like a gut punch and still gets stuck in the listener's head. Whether you are writing about a ...
How to Write Lyrics About Dance
You want people to move when your song drops. You want lines that sit in the pocket and make strangers on a subway nod like they unders...
How to Write Lyrics About Accountability
Want to write a song that owns the mess and still sounds like art? Accountability is one of those topics that can read as a boring lect...
How to Write Lyrics About Peace
You want a song about peace that does not sound like a pamphlet from 1972. You want lines that land like a warm blanket not like a lect...