How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Protest
You want a song that people can shout at a march, hum on a bus ride, and feel in their bones when they wake up angry at dawn. Good. Tha...
How to Write Songs About Surrender
Want to write a song that makes people exhale and maybe cry into their coffee? Good. Surrender is a rich angle. Surrender is dramatic, ...
How to Write Songs About Nature
You want a song that smells like rain without actually needing to stand in the rain holding a guitar. Songs about nature are a cheat co...
How to Write Songs About Action
You want the listener to feel like the camera is in their chest. You want kinetic verbs, percussion that hits like footsteps, melodies ...
How to Write Songs About Landscapes
You want listeners to feel the wind, the grit, the light, and the small stupid detail that makes a place unforgettable. Writing songs a...
How to Write Songs About Judgment
You want a song that pinches the truth and then makes the listener laugh or wince or both. Songs about judgment live in that weird pock...
How to Write Songs About Vulnerability
You want people to feel seen when they listen. You want a lyric that opens a door and lets someone walk in and say yes that is me. Vuln...
How to Write Songs About Lecture
Lecture songs are a goldmine. Whether you mean the snooze fest in Room 204 or the classic relationship scolding, lectures give you conf...
How to Write Songs About Continuation
You want a song that feels like tomorrow without pretending yesterday did not happen. A song about continuation is not a promise. It is...
How to Write Songs About Soliloquy
Want to write songs that feel like someone talking to themselves onstage in slow motion. You want intimate confessions that still hit l...