How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Interdependence
You want a song that honors connection without sounding like a motivational poster. You want lyrics that feel honest when two people si...
How to Write Songs About Home
Home is not a place only. Home is a mood. Home is a burnt spoon in a drawer. Home is the couch that remembers your shape. Songs about h...
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 Fragmentation
You want a song that sounds like a memory with the edges chewed off. You want listeners to feel the jolt of being pulled in pieces and ...
How to Write Songs About Healing
You want a song that feels like a hug without smelling like a sermon. You want lines that make someone breathe out a long held breath. ...
How to Write Songs About Escapism
You want listeners to step out of their apartment and into another life for three minutes. You want them to smell a foreign city, feel ...
How to Write Songs About Truth
If you want a song that hits like sunlight through a motel window you need lyrics that feel true. Truth in a song is not the same as a ...
How to Write Songs About Poetry
Poetry and songs are cousins who get drunk at family reunions and trade lines until someone starts crying. If you love the punch of a g...
How to Write Songs About Weather
Weather is dramatic without trying. It moves without consent. It shows up at weddings and funerals. It ruins first dates, makes lovers ...
How to Write Songs About Theater
You want to write songs that live on a stage and hit the heart the moment the footlights find them. Theater songs do a very different j...