How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
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 Report
Yes this is a thing. Reports are weirdly dramatic. A sheet of paper, a PDF, a DM flagged as harassment, a police form, a company quarte...
How to Write Songs About Gratitude
Gratitude songs are underrated emotional landmines. They make people cry in the grocery store. They make old friends text you a heart e...
How to Write Songs About Ruins
You want your song to smell like dust and taste like the last cigarette in an abandoned theater. You want listeners to feel the cold st...
How to Write Songs About Distance
Distance is a songwriting goldmine. It is the empty chair at the table. It is the unread message. It is the airport at midnight and the...
How to Write Songs About Stance
You want a song that does not hide behind polite ambiguity. You want a track that plants a flag, points a camera, or throws a thumb out...
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 Treaty
You want a song that makes people feel the weight of paper and the heat of history. You want a chorus that can be sung into a crowd or ...
How to Write Songs About Imagination
You want a song that smells like daydreams and tastes like the future. You want lyrics that take a listener out of the subway and into ...
How to Write Songs About Voice
You want a song that makes someone feel heard. Whether you mean the literal singing voice, the inner voice that nags you at 2 a.m., or ...