How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Narrative
You want your songs to feel like movies that fit in three minutes or less. You want characters that live, scenes that breathe, and an e...
How to Write Lyrics About Happiness
You want a song that makes people grin without feeling syrupy. You want lines that hit like sunlight through blinds rather than a motiv...
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 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...
How to Write Lyrics About Self-love
You want a song that makes your listener put down their phone and whisper, That is exactly me. You want language that is raw without be...
How to Write Lyrics About History
History is not just dates and dusty textbooks. History is a pile of personal stories, messy contradictions, scandalous gossip, and weir...
How to Write Lyrics About Realization
You want that gut punch moment in your song to feel true. You want the listener to tilt their head, check their phone, and text a frien...
How to Write Lyrics About Presentation
You want a song about showing up and being seen that actually lands. Whether you are writing about the terror of handing in a slideshow...
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 Togetherness
You want people to feel like they are in the room with you. You want lines that make couples squeeze hands. You want a chorus that beco...