How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Ruins
You want songs that smell like old libraries and taste like burned pages. You want lines that make listeners reach for a cigarette or a...
How to Write Lyrics About Symbols
You want a line that hits like a memory. You want a symbol that does heavy lifting without you explaining it like a clumsy college lect...
How to Write Lyrics About Teamwork
You want a song that celebrates being part of something without sounding like a corporate training video. You want lines that make peop...
How to Write Lyrics About Allies
Want to write a song that thanks the person who stood in a doorway with you when the world screamed? Good. Songs about allies can feel ...
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 Control
Control is the human condition served with a ridiculous topping of ego. Some people want it. Some people lose it. Most of us pretend to...
How to Write Lyrics About Form
You want to write a song that hacks the idea of structure and turns it into emotion. Maybe you want to write about paperwork and bureau...
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 Start
You need a beginning that feels like an event. Whether you are writing about the first drink after a long dry spell, the moment you mov...
How to Write Lyrics About Sadness
You want the kind of sad song that makes people cry in their cars and then blast it the next day. You want lines that land like a bruis...