How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Confrontation
Okay so you want to write a song where someone gets called out and it slaps like a reality show roast. You want the lines to sting but ...
How to Write Lyrics About Art
You want a song about art that does not sound like a grad school paper. You want language that feels alive, not airless. You want liste...
How to Write Lyrics About Stillness
You want quiet that screams without a single shout. Stillness in a song is not the absence of motion. Stillness is motion turned inward...
How to Write Lyrics About Learning
Learning is messy, funny, embarrassing, and often the best fuel for a song. Whether you are writing about learning a new chord, learnin...
How to Write Lyrics About Deception
Deception is the perfect songwriting subject. It is messy, juicy, and dramatic. It lets you play with truth and lies, with what is said...
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 Influence
Influence is messy and delicious. It lives in the DM that's saved and the song that got on your playlist before you knew you needed it....
How to Write Lyrics About Friends
Friends are song gold. They laugh with you, they bail you out of bad dates, they ghost your texts for three days then drop a voicemail ...
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 Unmaking
Unmaking is a mood and a ritual. It is the slow ruin of a thing you once loved and the tiny brave acts that follow. It can be a breakup...