How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Tradition vs. Change
You want a song that tugs at the family altar and then kicks open the window. You want listeners to feel the warmth of a ritual and the...
How to Write Songs About Connection
You want a song that grabs someone by the lonely part of their brain and convinces it that it is not alone. You want lyrics that read l...
How to Write Songs About Flowers
Flowers are cheap to buy and expensive to feel. They show up at breakups, weddings, funerals, and first dates like tiny emotional stage...
How to Write Songs About Devotion
Devotion is the slow burn that makes people stick around longer than common sense would allow. Whether you are writing about romantic l...
How to Write Songs About Recovery
You want a song that holds truth without being a lecture. You want lines that make people nod and cry and laugh because they recognize ...
How to Write Songs About Calmness
You want a song that acts like a soft pillow for the nervous brain. You want something that slows the heartbeat without being boring. Y...
How to Write Songs About Storytelling
Story songs are the songs that make people text their friends with one line, that sit in the back of your head like a guilty pleasure, ...
How to Write Songs About Disassembly
You want a song that makes dismantling feel like a ritual and not a trip to the hardware store. You want the listener to feel sparks, l...
How to Write Songs About Past vs. Future
Want to write a song that slaps and actually means something? Great. You are about to explore the easiest high concept in songwriting a...
How to Write Songs About Future
You want a future song that feels prophetic without sounding like a tired sci fi trope. You want listeners to tuck the chorus into a pl...