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 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 Skepticism
You want to write smart songs that feel suspicious without sounding pretentious. You want the lyric to lean forward with doubt and stil...
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 Arrangement
You want to write lyrics that sound like the song was arranged to follow them. You want the words to make the drums feel meaner, the st...
How to Write Lyrics About Rivers
Rivers are perfect songwriting candy. They are water and motion and memory and the messy history of everything that ever floated past. ...
How to Write Lyrics About Recovery from illness
This is not a therapy session but it is a map. Songs about recovery from illness can hit harder than a surprise waterworks scene in a r...
How to Write Lyrics About Surrender
Surrender is messy and poetic at the same time. It can be the slow unclenching after a long fight. It can be the quiet handwave that si...
How to Write Lyrics About Pact
You want a song about making or breaking a pact that punches a hole through the listener and leaves a scar they hum for days. Whether t...
How to Write Lyrics About Continuation
Continuation is not boring. Continuation is stubborn romance with time. Whether you write about continuing after a breakup, continuing ...