How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About First love
First love is messy, intoxicating, naive, and unforgettable. It is the first time a heart takes a bruise and calls it meaning. It smell...
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 Critique
You got told your song was amateur hour and you want to write a song about that insult. Or you felt your last chorus was called out by ...
How to Write Songs About Patience
Patience is not boring. Patience is dramatic. Waiting for a text, waiting for a record label to notice you, waiting for your brain to g...
How to Write Songs About Oceans
You want a song that smells like salt and makes strangers feel suddenly small and deeply dramatic in the best way. You want waves in th...
How to Write Songs About Draft
Draft</strong is a tiny word with giant moods. It can mean being called up to fight, the first rough version of a song, the beer you...
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 Courage
You want a song that makes someone stand up a little taller. You want words that crack open a chest, melodies that feel like a warm fis...
How to Write Songs About Lasting love
You want a love song that sticks like a tattoo you actually like years later. You want lyrics that feel true at midnight and at brunch....
How to Write Songs About Healing
You want a song that feels like a hug without smelling like a sermon. You want lines that make someone breathe out a long held breath. ...