How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
How to Write Lyrics About Mindfulness
You want a song that actually makes a listener pause their phone and breathe for a second. You are not writing a guided meditation audi...
How to Write Lyrics About Communication
Communication is the secret sauce of every relationship, fight night, and awkward group chat. It is what makes someone stay or leave. I...
How to Write Lyrics About Truce
You want a truce song that actually sounds human. You want a chorus that can be shouted in a car or texted at 2 a.m. You want verses th...
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 Begin
You want a song that nails what it feels like to start something. Maybe it is the awkward first day, the delicious first kiss, the sobe...
How to Write Lyrics About Approach
You want your listener to feel the walk toward a thing not just hear about it. Writing lyrics about approach means making motion into e...
How to Write Lyrics About Narration
So you want to write lyrics about narration. Nice. That means you are ready to write songs that tell stories with a voice that matters....
How to Write Lyrics About Surrender
Surrender is messy and poetic at the same time. It can be the slow unclenching after a long fight. It can be the quiet handwave that si...
How to Write Lyrics About Wholeness
Wholeness is not a trophy you win. It is a messy, confusing, occasionally glorious apartment you learn to live in. If your songs want t...
How to Write Lyrics About Failure
Failure is a weirdly rich songwriting subject. It is messy, awkward, embarrassing, and sometimes hilarious. It is also universal. Every...