How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Serenity
You want a song that makes someone breathe differently. You want ears to unclench. You want a verse that feels like a blanket and a cho...
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 Well-being
You want a song that helps people breathe better, laugh at their mess, or feel less alone when the brain decides to be dramatic. You wa...
How to Write Songs About Confidence
You want a song that walks into the room like it already owns the place. You want lyrics that make people stand a little straighter. Yo...
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 Life
You want a song that feels true and true to your voice. You want listeners to nod like they read the same diary you did. Songs about li...
How to Write Songs About Presence
Make your listener feel like they are in the room with you. Songs about presence are not essays about mindfulness. They are invitations...
How to Write Songs About Explanation
You are trying to explain yourself in a song. Maybe you want to say sorry without sounding weak. Maybe you want to justify a bad choice...
How to Write Songs About Exclusion
Exclusion is a song goldmine. It carries sting, shame, humor, and righteous fury. It is the story your aunt tells at Thanksgiving and t...
How to Write Songs About Learning
Learning is messy and beautiful and full of receipts you did not ask for. Whether you are writing about learning to play guitar, learni...