How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Draft
Draft is a weirdly versatile word. It can be a cold breeze that betrays you at 2 a.m. It can be a first draft that feels both embarrass...
How to Write Lyrics About Division
You want a song about division that hits like a gut punch and still gets stuck in the listener's head. Whether you are writing about a ...
How to Write Lyrics About Construction
Yes you can write an emotional banger about concrete, chainsaws, or scaffolding. Construction is full of muscle, mess, small rituals, a...
How to Write Lyrics About Family
Family is messy. Family is sacred. Family is that one sweater in the back of the closet that smells like your childhood and also like b...
How to Write Lyrics About Rain
Rain is free drama that falls from the sky. It arrives with sound, smell, texture and mood. It gives songwriters a ready made scene ful...
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 Balance
Balance is the unglamorous flex that actually keeps your life from collapsing into chaos. Musicians chase it all the time. You want the...
How to Write Lyrics About Address
You are not writing a Google Maps entry. You are writing a song that can make a corner store feel like a confession booth and a numbere...
How to Write Lyrics About Togetherness
You want people to feel like they are in the room with you. You want lines that make couples squeeze hands. You want a chorus that beco...
How to Write Lyrics About Pets
Your dog stole your sandwich and your heart. Your cat wakes you at three AM to demand tribute. Your parrot tells better stories than yo...