How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Stance
Stance is the attitude you show the world. Stance is what your voice says before your words finish. You want your lyrics to declare a p...
How to Write Lyrics About Survival
You want a song that does more than sound tough. You want lines that make listeners feel seen, give them breath, and hand them a word t...
How to Write Lyrics About Work
Work is drama dressed as routine. It is the place we spend half our waking lives. It is the place we learn our patience, practice our l...
How to Write Lyrics About Mistrust
Mistrust is an emotion that sings like a splinter. It is small, sharp, and it gets under your skin. Songs about mistrust land hard beca...
How to Write Lyrics About Celebration
You want a lyric that makes people grin, cry happy tears, and reach for their phone to share it. Celebration can be confetti loud or qu...
How to Write Lyrics About Silence
Silence is not nothing. Silence is a loud character in your song. It is the space where drama breathes and the listener leans in. If yo...
How to Write Lyrics About Decisions
Decisions are drama with a deadline. If you can turn the moment before or just after a choice into a vivid picture, you will have a son...
How to Write Lyrics About Future
Writing about the future is a superpower for songwriters. It lets you be prophetic, obsessed, hopeful, terrified, or wildly optimistic....
How to Write Lyrics About Irony
Irony is the delicious salt you add to a lyric to make it bite. When it works, listeners laugh and then feel something sharp enough to ...
How to Write Lyrics About Solitude
You want solitude that sounds true and not like a diary entry someone left on a bus. You want lines that make people sit up in a cafe a...