How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
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 Randomness
Randomness is juicy. It is the pickpocket of meaning and the comedian of fate. Songs about randomness let you sing about the tiny cosmi...
How to Write Songs About Form
You want a song that is about form and uses form as the point. You want structure to be the theme instead of something boring that sits...
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...
How to Write Songs About Cities
Cities are messy, loud, beautiful, ridiculous, and brutal in equal measure. That makes them perfect songwriting fuel. You can write a l...
How to Write Songs About Metaphor
Metaphor is the secret weapon every songwriter should steal and never admit to using in public. A great metaphor turns a feeling into a...
How to Write Songs About Influence
You want a song that smells like persuasion but sings like truth. You want a chorus that pulls people into an idea and a verse that sho...
How to Write Songs About Isolation
Isolation is the raw material of modern music. It is the small apartment with one light on at three in the morning. It is the group cha...
How to Write Songs About Monologue
You want a song that feels like someone talking to you in the dark. You want a lyric that reads like a private diary entry flipped into...
How to Write Songs About Peace
You want a song that feels like a deep breath in a world that always wants more drama. You want a lyric that does not sound like a gree...