How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Distance
You want a song that makes distance feel like a living thing. You want the listener to taste empty airline coffee, feel the gap between...
How to Write Lyrics About Destiny
You want a lyric that feels fated. You want listeners to feel like the song was waiting for them at a crossroads. Destiny can sound che...
How to Write Lyrics About Peacekeepers
You want a song about peacekeepers that actually lands. You do not want a clumsy slog filled with empty hero talk or military poster li...
How to Write Lyrics About Monuments
Monuments are great lyric fuel. They are giant emotional cheat codes that arrive with built in history, texture, and drama. The trick i...
How to Write Lyrics About Anger
Want your anger to sound powerful and true instead of petulant and boring. Good. Anger is an emotion that either slaps the listener awa...
How to Write Lyrics About Imbalance
You want a song that feels like life tipping over in slow motion. You want language that is sharp enough to make people wince and gentl...
How to Write Lyrics About Insecurity
You want your listeners to feel seen when they hear your song. You want lines that crack open and do not sound like advice from a self ...
How to Write Lyrics About Magic
You want to write a song about magic that does not sound like a middle school Dungeons and Dragons fanfic read aloud by a fortune cooki...
How to Write Lyrics About Truth
Truth in a song is not just facts. Truth is feeling, texture, and the little guilty things people do at three AM that make them human. ...
How to Write Lyrics About Flowers
You want a flower lyric that smells like truth not like a Hallmark card. Flowers are everywhere in songs. They can be gorgeous, gross, ...