How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Trust
Trust is the thing that either turns a song into a warm hug or a mugging in the parking lot of feelings. If you write about trust badly...
How to Write Lyrics About Start
You need a beginning that feels like an event. Whether you are writing about the first drink after a long dry spell, the moment you mov...
How to Write Lyrics About Storms
Storms are drama you can sing about without apologizing for the melodrama. They are loud, messy, cinematic, and everyone has stood in o...
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 Forgiveness
You want to write a song about forgiveness that feels true not cheesy. You want lines that sting and then soothe. You want a chorus tha...
How to Write Lyrics About Tradition
Tradition is not a dusty museum prop. Tradition is a living, breathing set of rhythms, rituals, recipes, jokes, prayers, curse words, a...
How to Write Lyrics About Justice
Want to write a justice song that actually lands and does not sound like a lecture on a podium? Good. This guide is for artists who wan...
How to Write Lyrics About Innovation
You want a lyric that makes people feel brave about the future and human about the machine. You want lines that sound like they could b...
How to Write Lyrics About Reality
Write lyrics that feel like a friend telling a story, not like a motivational poster with autotune. If your songs are supposed to refle...
How to Write Lyrics About Equality
You want to write a lyric about equality that slaps harder than a reality check. You want words that are brave without being performati...