How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Disorder
You want a lyric that feels honest and sharp. You want listeners to feel seen or jolted or both. You want to avoid sounding exploitativ...
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 Leisure
Leisure is an idea that feels soft until you try to write about it. You want a lyric that makes someone put their phone down, breathe o...
How to Write Lyrics About Doubt
Doubt is a gold mine for writers who are brave enough to admit they do not have all the answers. It is messy and petty and deeply human...
How to Write Lyrics About Nightmares
You want a song that crawls under the listener's skin and refuses to leave. You want words that smell like cold sweat and stale motel c...
How to Write Lyrics About Patience
Patience is not boring. Patience is dramatic waiting with better lighting. Whether your song is about waiting for love, waiting for you...
How to Write Lyrics About Adversaries
You want to roast someone with art not start a legal thriller. You want lines that sting and a chorus that people sing in the shower wh...
How to Write Lyrics About Warriors
You want a warrior song that slaps like armor on a drum kit. You want lines that land like a sword strike and hooks that feel like a ba...
How to Write Lyrics About Nature’s beauty
You want listeners to smell pine needles through earbuds. You want a line that makes someone pause their doomscroll and stare at a sunb...
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...