How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Sound
You want your words to make ears do a double take. You want listeners to hear the traffic, the thunder, the text tone, or the crowd roa...
How to Write Lyrics About Distraction
You want a song that feels like someone scrolling through your head at 3 AM. You want lyrics that capture that jittery, half paying att...
How to Write Lyrics About Truce
You want a truce song that actually sounds human. You want a chorus that can be shouted in a car or texted at 2 a.m. You want verses th...
How to Write Lyrics About Philanthropy
You want to write a song that moves wallets and souls without sounding like a charity ad read by a robot. You want people to cry in the...
How to Write Lyrics About Action
You want your lyrics to feel like a movie that fits inside a chorus. You want the listener to see hands, doors, rain, and that dramatic...
How to Write Lyrics About Form
You want to write a song that hacks the idea of structure and turns it into emotion. Maybe you want to write about paperwork and bureau...
How to Write Lyrics About Seasons
Seasons are emotional cheat codes. They hand you color palettes, smells, textures and a natural storyline that listeners already bring ...
How to Write Lyrics About Stars
You want a lyric about stars that does not sound like a Hallmark card left in a telescope shop. You want imagery that feels cinematic a...
How to Write Lyrics About Fairness
Fairness is a mood and a magnifying glass. It can be the low simmer of a relationship argument. It can be the roar on a protest sign. I...
How to Write Lyrics About Social justice
You want to make a song that matters and does not make things worse. You want lyrics that hit like protest signs but sing like somethin...