How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Knowledge
So you want to write a song about knowledge. Maybe you want to celebrate curiosity. Maybe you want to roast someone who thinks reading ...
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 Urban life
You want lyrics that smell like subway air and feel like a neon bruise. You want lines that make someone nod, laugh, and maybe text the...
How to Write Lyrics About Overcoming adversity
You want your song to feel like a fist pump and a therapy session at the same time. You want lines that make people text their ex a scr...
How to Write Lyrics About Doubt
Doubt is a gold mine for writers who are brave enough to admit they do not have all the answers. It is messy and petty and deeply human...
How to Write Lyrics About Innocence
Innocence is not naive like a vacuum sealed in plastic. Innocence is a fragile muscle that flexes when we see something for the first t...
How to Write Lyrics About Talk
Talking is the easiest thing people do and the hardest thing to make sound honest in a song. You have a million tiny conversations acro...
How to Write Lyrics About Idleness
You want a song that makes being bored feel cinematic. You want to turn the couch potato hour into a believable scene that people nod a...
How to Write Lyrics About Storms
Storms are drama you can sing about without apologizing for the melodrama. They are loud, messy, cinematic, and everyone has stood in o...
How to Write Lyrics About Love
Love songs are easy to feel and hard to write without sounding like a Hallmark card from a sad vending machine. You want something that...