How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Leadership
You want a song that makes people stand a little taller. Maybe you want a stadium chant, maybe you want a soft hymn that makes a small ...
How to Write Lyrics About Tradition
Tradition is not a dusty museum prop. Tradition is a living, breathing set of rhythms, rituals, recipes, jokes, prayers, curse words, a...
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 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 Lecture
You sat through seventy five minutes of someone reading slides and you came out with a metaphor, a line, and a headache that might be a...
How to Write Lyrics About Control
Control is the human condition served with a ridiculous topping of ego. Some people want it. Some people lose it. Most of us pretend to...
How to Write Lyrics About Weather
Weather is the easiest mood ring you will ever wear. It is public, universal, and cheap to reference. Rain can be sad, sun can be horny...
How to Write Lyrics About Inclusion
You want your song to include people without making them feel like a prop. You want lines that land like a hug, not a lecture. You want...
How to Write Lyrics About Engagement
You want a song that makes someone say yes before the ring comes out. You want lines that feel like a private joke only the two of you ...
How to Write Lyrics About Oration
You want a song that makes a speech sound like a love scene or a riot depending on the beat. You want lyrics that treat oration as char...