How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Simile
Similes are the secret sugar that makes lyrics taste like something you remember and hum in the shower. If you sing like a thrift shop ...
How to Write Lyrics About Power
You want a lyric that hits like a mic drop. You want lines that make people stand straighter, or that make someone who wronged you squi...
How to Write Lyrics About Speech
You want your song to sound like a conversation, not a clipboard of quotes. You want the lines to carry the weight of how someone says ...
How to Write Lyrics About Melody
You have a melody in your head and you want words that either ride it like a pro or sing about it like it is a crush. Maybe your produc...
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 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 Surrender
Surrender is messy and poetic at the same time. It can be the slow unclenching after a long fight. It can be the quiet handwave that si...
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 Skepticism
You want to write smart songs that feel suspicious without sounding pretentious. You want the lyric to lean forward with doubt and stil...
How to Write Lyrics About Technology
You want a song that makes people laugh then feel then forward a screenshot to their best friend. Technology is the air we breathe and ...