How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Wholeness
You want a song that feels like a warm, honest hug for the soul. Not a Hallmark card shoved into a drum loop. You want language that is...
How to Write Songs About Healing
You want a song that feels like a hug without smelling like a sermon. You want lines that make someone breathe out a long held breath. ...
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 Activity
Want to write songs about doing things that feel as electric as a skateboard wheel hitting pavement? Good. Activity songs are the secre...
How to Write Songs About Agreement
You want a song about agreement that does not sound like a pamphlet from the DMV. A song about agreement can be tender, hilarious, poli...
How to Write Songs About Separation
You want a song that feels like it was sneaking out of your diary at 2 a.m. You want lines that sting and lines that make listeners lau...
How to Write Songs About Sacrifice
Sacrifice is dramatic currency. It buys stakes, reveals character, and makes listeners either cry into their oat milk or fist pump for ...
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 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 Insecurity
Insecurity makes great material and terrible company. It is that jittery backstage light that shows every sweat stain. It is the voice ...