How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Space
You want a song that makes someone feel weightless on the first listen. Maybe you want to flex with a Bowie style epic. Maybe you want ...
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 Imbalance
Imbalance is the delicious mess of real life. It is a missed rent payment and a perfect sunrise. It is wanting someone and knowing you ...
How to Write Songs About Service
You want to write a song that honors work done for others. Maybe you are writing about a server who stays late for a table of regulars....
How to Write Songs About Alienation
You want songs that make people feel understood without sounding like an internet pity party. Alienation is one of those emotions that ...
How to Write Songs About Technique
You want a song that teaches without sounding like a dusty lecture. You want lines that explain a bending, a sweep, a breath control tr...
How to Write Songs About Exclusion
Exclusion is a song goldmine. It carries sting, shame, humor, and righteous fury. It is the story your aunt tells at Thanksgiving and t...
How to Write Songs About Ambition
You want a song that makes the listener want to stand up, quit the job they hate, and call their future self a name with respect. Songs...
How to Write Songs About Honor
You want a song that honors something bigger than a mood. You want a lyric that carries weight without sounding preachy. You want melod...
How to Write Songs About Solitude
You want a song that makes listeners feel seen while they are alone, stuck on their couch, or pretending they are fine. Songs about sol...