How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
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 Physical health
You want a song that talks about bodies without sounding preachy, medical, or boring. You want lyrics that land like a fist of truth an...
How to Write Songs About Trees
You could write a sad breakup song or a dumb party anthem. Or you could write a song about a tree and sound like you discovered the hum...
How to Write Songs About Platonic love
Your best friend deserves a bop. So does your ride or die roommate. So does the person who taught you how to tune a bass and how to eat...
How to Write Songs About Advocacy
You want a song that makes people care and then do something about it. You want a chorus that becomes a chant at a rally. You want vers...
How to Write Songs About Heroes
You want a hero song that does more than say thank you. You want a song that makes listeners feel the scrape of boots, the smell of smo...
How to Write Songs About Perspective
Perspective is the secret sauce that turns an okay lyric into something your listener remembers and repeats at party karaoke. Not every...
How to Write Songs About Dependence
Dependence is messy, intimate, embarrassing, and sometimes heroic. It can be a late night reach for your ex name on the phone. It can b...
How to Write Songs About Blueprint
You want a song that uses blueprints as more than a prop. You want the word to live in the chorus and breathe in the verse. You want th...
How to Write Songs About Dreams
You want a song that feels like a sleepover in someone else mind. You want weird images, the kind that make people pause the song and r...