How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Desire
You want your listener to feel a heat that makes them move, call, cry, and maybe text an ex at 2 a.m. Desire is the engine of countless...
How to Write Songs About Heroes
You want a hero song that does more than say thank you. You want a song that makes listeners feel the scrape of boots, the smell of smo...
How to Write Songs About Connection
You want a song that grabs someone by the lonely part of their brain and convinces it that it is not alone. You want lyrics that read l...
How to Write Songs About Tradition vs. Change
You want a song that tugs at the family altar and then kicks open the window. You want listeners to feel the warmth of a ritual and the...
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 Destruction
You want to make something that feels like an earthquake but still plays on repeat. Songs about destruction are powerful because they a...
How to Write Songs About Talk
You want a song that feels like eavesdropping on the best conversation of your life. You want lines that sound like a real text thread....
How to Write Songs About Insects
You want to write a song about a bug and not sound like a preschool nature video. Good. That is an art. Insect songs can be hilarious, ...
How to Write Songs About Reform
You want a song that demands attention and then refuses to let go. You want a chorus people can chant at a rally and a verse a journali...
How to Write Songs About Viewpoint
Viewpoint is the secret actor in every song. It tells the audience who is talking, where we stand in the room, and which parts of the s...