How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Reunion
Reunion lyrics are emotional landmines in the best way. They can be a fist pump, a broken smile, a phone that buzzes and you pretend no...
How to Write Lyrics About Unrequited love
So you have feelings for someone who does not feel the same way. Welcome to the oldest plot twist in human history and the source of at...
How to Write Lyrics About Pause
Pause is a tiny honest saboteur. It sits in all the places songs avoid talking about. It is the breath you hold when someone says we ne...
How to Write Lyrics About Cities
Writing a song about a city is like translating an entire urban life into three minutes and four lines that people can sing in the show...
How to Write Lyrics About Poetry
You want to write a song that is about poetry without sounding like a MFA student at a party where no one wants to talk about meter. Yo...
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 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 Legacy
You want a lyric that feels like a time capsule and a mic drop at the same time. Legacy is the kind of theme that either becomes sentim...
How to Write Lyrics About Power
You want a lyric that hits like a mic drop. You want lines that make people stand straighter, or that make someone who wronged you squi...
How to Write Lyrics About Fairy tales
You want lyric magic that feels like childhood myth and late night drama at once. You want lines that smell of old books and of instant...