How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Decisions
Decisions are drama with a deadline. If you can turn the moment before or just after a choice into a vivid picture, you will have a son...
How to Write Lyrics About Identity crisis
So you are standing on the emotional border between who you were and who everyone expects you to be. You have questions. You have outfi...
How to Write Lyrics About Disagreement
Arguments make visceral songs. They put two people in a room with too many feelings and not enough punctuation. A fight can be cinemati...
How to Write Lyrics About Mood
You want your song to feel like a room. Not just a collection of lines and chords. You want the listener to enter a place that smells a...
How to Write Lyrics About Mountains
You want mountains that hit like a chorus. You want imagery that smells like pine, feels like sun on your face, and hits emotional alti...
How to Write Lyrics About Imagination
This is your permission slip to get weirder on purpose. If you are tired of the same tired romantic metaphors and want to write lyrics ...
How to Write Lyrics About Reflection
You want songs that feel like staring at your life through a cracked window and then laughing at what you see. Reflection songs are emo...
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 Consequences
You want a lyric that lands like a truth bomb. You want people to sing it in the shower and immediately feel something messy, human, an...
How to Write Lyrics About Past vs. Future
You want a song that feels like time in music. One ear hears yesterday and the other hears tomorrow. You want imagery that makes the pa...