How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
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 Bridge
If the chorus is the billboard and the verse is the backstory, the bridge is the plot twist with a tattoo and a better haircut. It is t...
How to Write Lyrics About Diversity
You want a song that counts and does not come off like a performative Instagram post. You want lyrics that show real lives, honest comp...
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 Poetry
You want to write a song that is about poetry without sounding like a MFA student at a party where no one wants to talk about meter. Yo...
How to Write Lyrics About Voice
Voice is more than sound. It is identity, power, memory, and the thing that gets stolen, silenced, celebrated, or autotuned into someth...
How to Write Lyrics About Self-love
You want a song that makes your listener put down their phone and whisper, That is exactly me. You want language that is raw without be...
How to Write Lyrics About Order
You want a song about order that feels human. You do not want a lecture from a labeled file folder. You want visceral images, cunning l...
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...
How to Write Lyrics About Tone
Tone is the attitude your lyric wears when it walks into a room. Tone tells the listener if they are being told a secret, roasted, sedu...