How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Adventure
You want lyrics that make your listener grab a backpack or at least feel like they almost did. Adventure is a mood. It can be reckless,...
How to Write Lyrics About Unpredictability
You want songs that hit like a plot twist. You want lines that make listeners nod then blink because they did not see the turn coming. ...
How to Write Lyrics About Fairness
Fairness is a mood and a magnifying glass. It can be the low simmer of a relationship argument. It can be the roar on a protest sign. I...
How to Write Lyrics About Past vs. Future
You want a song that feels like time in music. One ear hears yesterday and the other hears tomorrow. You want imagery that makes the pa...
How to Write Lyrics About Anger
Want your anger to sound powerful and true instead of petulant and boring. Good. Anger is an emotion that either slaps the listener awa...
How to Write Lyrics About Life
You want a song that sounds like a diary entry acted out on a stage. You want lines that make people nod, laugh, cry, or tag a friend i...
How to Write Lyrics About Time
Time is the one thing every listener lives inside. You want lyrics that make a minute feel like a movie and a decade feel like a blink....
How to Write Lyrics About Recovery from addiction
This is not another twee anthem about getting clean like breakfast cereal solves your problems. If you are writing about recovery you a...
How to Write Lyrics About Imagination
This is your permission slip to get weirder on purpose. If you are tired of the same tired romantic metaphors and want to write lyrics ...
How to Write Lyrics About Finish
Finish is the little word that carries the whole apocalypse and the quiet relief at once. Writing about finish is a sweet spot for song...