How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Perseverance
You want a song that feels like a fist bump and a survival guide at the same time. You want lines that hit like a late night pep talk a...
How to Write Lyrics About Loyalty
You want lyrics that make people nod, cry, and call their ride or die immediately. Loyalty is a heavy word that can be sentimental, sav...
How to Write Lyrics About Independence
You want songs that smell like freedom and hit like a truth bomb. You want lines that make people nod, cry, laugh, and maybe suddenly c...
How to Write Lyrics About Recovery from addiction
This is not another twee anthem about getting clean like breakfast cereal solves your problems. If you are writing about recovery you a...
How to Write Lyrics About Characters
Characters make songs feel like movies you can sing along to. When you write about a person who seems alive on the page the listener le...
How to Write Lyrics About Critique
Critique is messy, personal, and gold for songwriting. Whether someone told you your voice is thin, a producer said your chorus is bori...
How to Write Lyrics About Tone
Tone is the attitude your lyric wears when it walks into a room. Tone tells the listener if they are being told a secret, roasted, sedu...
How to Write Lyrics About Collaboration
Collaboration is messy. Collaboration is magical. Collaboration is the reason half your best lines show up in a group chat at 2 a.m. Wr...
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 Foes
Got a story about someone who wronged you? Good. That is material. Whether you want to write a blunt diss track, a sly subliminal, or a...