How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Method
Method is sexy. Method is boring. Method is the thing you do at 3 a.m. to avoid calling your ex. Method is the ritual, the rule set, th...
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 Imagery
Imagery is the difference between a lyric you hum and a lyric that haunts you. You want listeners to see the room, smell the rain, tast...
How to Write Lyrics About Truth
Truth in a song is not just facts. Truth is feeling, texture, and the little guilty things people do at three AM that make them human. ...
How to Write Lyrics About Conversation
You want dialogue that sounds like a real human, not a script read by a robot trying to be edgy. Conversation in songwriting is the fas...
How to Write Lyrics About Belonging
You want a lyric that feels like a warm hoodie on a cold night. You want lines that make people nod, text a friend, and say I get that....
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 Start
You need a beginning that feels like an event. Whether you are writing about the first drink after a long dry spell, the moment you mov...
How to Write Lyrics About Animals
You want a song about animals that feels true and not like a school project or a viral meme that died on sight. You want a hook that ma...
How to Write Lyrics About Form
You want to write a song that hacks the idea of structure and turns it into emotion. Maybe you want to write about paperwork and bureau...