How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Legacy
Legacy feels big and heavy until you start writing lines and it becomes personal and messy and human. You do not need to reinvent etern...
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 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 Evaluation
Writing a song about being judged or judging yourself does not have to feel like listening to someone read their annual review aloud. Y...
How to Write Songs About Dreams
You want a song that feels like a sleepover in someone else mind. You want weird images, the kind that make people pause the song and r...
How to Write Songs About Loneliness
You want a song that does more than say lonely. You want a song that puts the listener in the room where the loneliness happened. You w...
How to Write Songs About End
Endings are songwriting gold. They are messy, dramatic, hilarious, and devastating all at once. A great song about an end translates th...
How to Write Songs About War
You want a song about war that lands like a punch and holds like a hug. You want listeners to feel the dust, the fear, the weird quiet ...
How to Write Songs About Rights
You want your music to matter and not just sound sincere on Instagram. You want a lyric that punches through the noise, a melody that p...
How to Write Songs About Equality
You want your song to do something real. You want people to listen, feel, and then act or at least remember. Songs about equality can c...