How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Identity crisis
So you are standing on the emotional border between who you were and who everyone expects you to be. You have questions. You have outfi...
How to Write Lyrics About Narrative
You want your songs to feel like movies that fit in three minutes or less. You want characters that live, scenes that breathe, and an e...
How to Write Lyrics About Meter
Meter is the secret skeleton of every song. It is the invisible pulse that makes a line feel like it fits or like it fell asleep on the...
How to Write Lyrics About Attitude
Want lyrics that snap, burn, and then wink at the listener? Attitude in a song is not a mood board. Attitude is a personality with an a...
How to Write Lyrics About Assessment
You want a song about being judged that actually slaps. Whether it is a school exam, a job review, an AGREE or a friend scoring your da...
How to Write Lyrics About Monuments
Monuments are great lyric fuel. They are giant emotional cheat codes that arrive with built in history, texture, and drama. The trick i...
How to Write Lyrics About Accountability
Want to write a song that owns the mess and still sounds like art? Accountability is one of those topics that can read as a boring lect...
How to Write Lyrics About Teaching
Teaching is messy, heroic, boring, ridiculous, and full of tiny details that sound great in a song. If you want to write lyrics about t...
How to Write Lyrics About Journey
You want a song that makes people pack a bag emotionally and start walking either literally or in their heads. Whether your protagonist...
How to Write Lyrics About Empowerment
You want lyrics that make people stand taller in their kitchen at three a.m. You want lines that get texted to a friend, posted to a st...