How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Dreams vs. Reality
You just woke up from a wild dream where you were commuting on a whale and your ex was the DJ. You remember a line or a feeling but the...
How to Write Lyrics About Action
You want your lyrics to feel like a movie that fits inside a chorus. You want the listener to see hands, doors, rain, and that dramatic...
How to Write Lyrics About Choice
Choice is the secret currency of the human soundtrack. Songs about choosing are emotionally magnetic because choice means stakes. Choic...
How to Write Lyrics About Emotion
You want a lyric that punches a hole through the chest and makes someone text their ex at 2 a.m. Good. You are in the right place. This...
How to Write Lyrics About Design
Design is everywhere and it is secretly emotional. Chairs argue with your spine. A color palette seduces or insults. A logo promises be...
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 Mountains
You want mountains that hit like a chorus. You want imagery that smells like pine, feels like sun on your face, and hits emotional alti...
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 Genre
You want to sing about genre without sounding like a music nerd at a party who will not stop talking. You want lines that punch, that w...
How to Write Lyrics About Advocacy
You want a song that means something and makes people move. You want lines that sting, a chorus people can chant at a rally, and a voic...