How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
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 Breakups
Breakup songs are emotional currency. They are how we process rage, sadness, relief, and the stupid things we did at 2 a.m. They are al...
How to Write Lyrics About Insects
You want a song about bugs that does not sound like a preschool rhyme. You want lines that sting, that make people laugh, that sneak in...
How to Write Lyrics About Experience
Writing lyrics about experience is the short path from a memory to a song that punches the chest and makes strangers text their ex. You...
How to Write Lyrics About Fantasy
You want to lure listeners into another world and make them feel like they lived there for three minutes and thirty seconds. Fantasy ly...
How to Write Lyrics About Intimacy
You want your song to feel like a private text someone reads in a dim room and then presses replay until the battery dies. Intimacy in ...
How to Write Lyrics About Youth
You want lyrics that feel like a Polaroid thrown at the wall with a Sharpie note on it. You want lines that smack of high school hallwa...
How to Write Lyrics About Magic
You want to write a song about magic that does not sound like a middle school Dungeons and Dragons fanfic read aloud by a fortune cooki...
How to Write Lyrics About Makeups
You want a song about makeup that slaps in the best way. You want lines that are witty without being shallow. You want images that feel...
How to Write Lyrics About Isolation
You want to write about being alone and not sound like a Hallmark card for sad people. You want lines that land like a truth, images th...