How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Duty
Duty is not glamorous. Duty shows up at 6 a.m. with coffee and a flannel shirt. You can make it holy. You can make it tragic. You can m...
How to Write Songs About Honor
You want a song that honors something bigger than a mood. You want a lyric that carries weight without sounding preachy. You want melod...
How to Write Songs About Identity
You want a song that smells like you without being a diary entry that only you can enjoy. You want a lyric that makes someone else nod ...
How to Write Songs About Allegory
You want a song that hits like a metaphor and lands like a revelation. You want listeners to smile when they finally get the twist yet ...
How to Write Songs About Recital
You want a song that nails the sweaty palms and bright lights and makes someone remember the time they forgot a page of sheet music. So...
How to Write Songs About Fragmentation
You want a song that sounds like a memory with the edges chewed off. You want listeners to feel the jolt of being pulled in pieces and ...
How to Write Songs About Randomness
Randomness is juicy. It is the pickpocket of meaning and the comedian of fate. Songs about randomness let you sing about the tiny cosmi...
How to Write Songs About Rivers
Rivers are dramatic by default. They carry history, secrets, lovers, trash, and hope. They are weather with a bank. Rivers can be a cha...
How to Write Songs About Doubt
Doubt is the ugly sweater of emotion. It is uncomfortable, it bleeds through your outfit, and yet it is one of the best things you can ...
How to Write Songs About Moon
You want that moon song that sounds cinematic on a rooftop and messy in a late night text thread. You want lyrics that make people look...