How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Chorus
You want a chorus that people know two seconds after they hear it. You want a line that becomes a text quote, a tattoo idea, and that o...
How to Write Lyrics About Nightmares
You want a song that crawls under the listener's skin and refuses to leave. You want words that smell like cold sweat and stale motel c...
How to Write Lyrics About Modernity
You want a song that smells like the present without sounding like a tech brochure. You want lines that snap, images that land, and met...
How to Write Lyrics About Past vs. Future
You want a song that feels like time in music. One ear hears yesterday and the other hears tomorrow. You want imagery that makes the pa...
How to Write Lyrics About Hope
You do not need to be a motivational poster to write a song about hope. Hope in songs is not sugarcoating. Hope is a posture. It is swe...
How to Write Lyrics About Resolution
You want closure that hits like a wave not a flat notification. Writing about resolution in lyrics means giving listeners that satisfyi...
How to Write Lyrics About Guidance
You want lyrics that point, soothe, push, or roast the idea of guidance without sounding like a fortune cookie. Guidance in songs can m...
How to Write Lyrics About Creativity
You want to write a song about creativity that actually sounds like someone made something instead of reading a textbook out loud. Crea...
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...
How to Write Lyrics About Authority
Authority is loud, messy and delicious for writers. It is that voice that tells a crowd what to do. It is the jerk who stole your lunch...