How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Belief
You want a song that makes a listener lean forward and decide to care. Songs about belief are strange beasts. They live at the crossroa...
How to Write Songs About Irony
You want to write a song that makes people laugh, wince, then replay it to figure out if you were serious or just very, very clever. Ir...
How to Write Songs About Environmentalism
You want a song that makes people feel something and then do something. You want a chorus that lands in the heart and a verse that show...
How to Write Songs About Fortitude
You want a song that feels like a friend who will not quit on you. You want lines that make listeners stand a little taller. You want m...
How to Write Songs About Community
You want a song that makes strangers hug each other in the chorus. You want a lyric that turns a crowd into a choir. You want a melody ...
How to Write Songs About Construction
You want a song that sounds like a job site and a diary at the same time. You want imagery that clicks like a nail gun and a chorus tha...
How to Write Songs About Time
Time is the most relatable subject on the planet. Everyone has too much of it and not enough of it at the same time. Musicians write ab...
How to Write Songs About Beat
Want to write songs that land on a beat and live there like they pay rent? Whether you mean writing about the concept of the beat in a ...
How to Write Songs About Intimacy
You want a song that feels like a private text from a lover you still want to keep. You want lines that make people blush and nod at th...
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...