How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Realism
You want your song to feel true enough to bruise. You want listeners to point at the lyrics and say that is literally me or that is som...
How to Write Songs About Setting
You want a place that feels like a character. You want listeners to smell the coffee, taste the summer air, and remember the streetligh...
How to Write Songs About Weakness
Weakness is not a bug. It is a songwriting superpower. Songs that name the soft spots, the cracked mirrors, the texts sent at 2 a.m. an...
How to Write Songs About Belonging
You want listeners to feel seen. You want a line that lands like a hugged chest. You want a chorus that people sing in a room full of s...
How to Write Songs About Urban life
You want your music to feel like a walk across the city at midnight. You want lyrics that smell like cheap coffee and wet asphalt. You ...
How to Write Songs About Wind
Wind is both weather and feeling. It can be playful like a friend pulling your hair. It can be menacing like that text from your ex at ...
How to Write Songs About Stop
You want the moment in the song where everything halts and the listener feels it in their bones. Whether your song is about stopping a ...
How to Write Songs About Distraction
Distraction is not a failure. It is a goldmine for songwriting. You are writing about a feeling that every listener knows intimately. P...
How to Write Songs About Destruction
You want to make something that feels like an earthquake but still plays on repeat. Songs about destruction are powerful because they a...
How to Write Songs About Themes
Theme is the secret sauce that turns a line you scribbled on a napkin into a song people feel in their bones. If you want songs that la...