How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Universe
You want to write a song that makes people look up from their phones and feel the size of everything while still relating to their mess...
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 Description
You want your songs to make people feel like they are inside the room with you. You want lines that stick like gum to a sneaker and ima...
How to Write Songs About Spirituality
You want a spiritual song that lands like a warm hug from a stranger who actually knows your story. You are not chasing incense and moo...
How to Write Songs About Space
You want a song that makes someone feel weightless on the first listen. Maybe you want to flex with a Bowie style epic. Maybe you want ...
How to Write Songs About Journey
You want a song that makes people want to pack a bag or text their ex or both. Journey songs are emotional road maps. They can be liter...
How to Write Songs About Enemies
You want to write a song that turns anger into something sticky and singable. You want a line that lands like a roast and a chorus that...
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 Work
Work is a mood. Work is a story. Work is therapy with a drum machine. If your day job gives you anger, joy, awkward romance, or a recur...
How to Write Songs About Play
You want a song that feels like a playground in your ears. You want to make listeners grin, bounce, or suddenly remember the thrill of ...