How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Predictability
Predictability is boring on paper and powerful in a song. The trick is to write lyrics that treat routine like a character. You want li...
How to Write Lyrics About Themes
You want a lyric that feels inevitable. You want a line that someone screenshots and posts on their story. You want a chorus that names...
How to Write Lyrics About Evaluation
You want to write a song about being judged and still make people laugh cry and think you are a prophet of receipts. Whether you are wr...
How to Write Lyrics About Feeling
You want people to feel something when they hear your song. Not just a murmur of empathy. Not a polite head nod. You want a full on int...
How to Write Lyrics About Opinion
You have an opinion. Now make it sing. Whether your view is petty, righteous, ridiculous, or brilliant, a lyric can carry it into a cho...
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...
How to Write Lyrics About Monologue
You want the kind of lyric that makes a listener whisper the line to a stranger on the subway. You want an interior voice that reads li...
How to Write Lyrics About Ambition
You want a song that feels hungry without sounding like a motivational poster. You want ambition to read human and messy, not like a Li...
How to Write Lyrics About Enchantment
You want your song to feel like a secret the listener just discovered. You want lines that glitter but still land like something a real...
How to Write Lyrics About Loneliness
You want your song to feel like a midnight message but with better grammar. Loneliness is the emotional currency of billion dollar play...