How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Wholeness
Wholeness is not a trophy you win. It is a messy, confusing, occasionally glorious apartment you learn to live in. If your songs want t...
How to Write Lyrics About Aging
Growing older is messy and hilarious and dark and sacred all at once. You want a lyric that makes someone laugh and then choke up in th...
How to Write Lyrics About Account
You want a song about account that sounds human not like a bank statement or a boring financial blog. Whether you mean a bank account, ...
How to Write Lyrics About Recounting
You want to turn memories into songs people actually remember. You want the listener to feel like they are eavesdropping on the best ve...
How to Write Lyrics About Society
You want to write songs about the world you live in without sounding like a lecture from your uncle at Thanksgiving. You want lines tha...
How to Write Lyrics About Forbidden love
Forbidden love is deliciously dramatic. It is the neon at 2 a.m. the secret playlist you never admit to and the text thread you delete ...
How to Write Lyrics About Free will
You want to sing about the big choice without sounding like a philosophy major with a guitar. Free will can be heavy. It can also be el...
How to Write Lyrics About Identity
You want a song that feels like you and also feels like everyone you hope will listen. Writing about identity means navigating memory, ...
How to Write Lyrics About Dependence
You want a lyric that feels true and uncomfortable in the best way. Dependence is messy. It is sticky. It is the thing you pretend is n...
How to Write Lyrics About Growth
You want a lyric that proves you changed without sounding like a self help pamphlet. You want lines that sting and land, not ones that ...