How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
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 Sacrifice
Sacrifice is a lyric writer gold mine. It contains pain and pride, regret and glory, and the kind of messy human detail that makes list...
How to Write Lyrics About Style
Style in a song is not about name dropping brands. Style is the personality you can touch. It is the way someone zips their jacket when...
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 Death
Death is a heavy topic and a songwriting goldmine when handled with respect and craft. You want lines that land, not lines that limp. Y...
How to Write Lyrics About Account
You want a song about account that sounds human not like a bank statement or a boring financial blog. Whether you mean a bank account, ...
How to Write Lyrics About Closeness
Closeness is a drug and a grocery list at the same time. It can be soft, urgent, boring, erotic, safe, or the reason you cannot sleep. ...
How to Write Lyrics About Old vs. New
You want a lyric that smells like cedar boxes and fresh plastic at the same time. You want listeners to feel the ache of what was and t...
How to Write Lyrics About Home
Home is the smell of burned toast at 7 a.m. The key under the mat. The quiet you carry like a bruise. Writing about home is deliciously...
How to Write Lyrics About Dispute
Arguments make great songs. They are raw, charged, and full of obvious detail. They give you verbs, objects, and a clear emotional prom...