How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Rebellion
You want a song that makes people jump, think, or throw a fist in the air. You want words that bruise and melodies that feel like permi...
How to Write Songs About Physical health
You want a song that talks about bodies without sounding preachy, medical, or boring. You want lyrics that land like a fist of truth an...
How to Write Songs About Comrades
You want a song that honors the messy beauty of friendship. You want the listener to feel like they are standing in a cramped van at th...
How to Write Songs About Growth
Growth songs are not motivational posters with melodies. Growth songs are honest travelogues from one version of you to another version...
How to Write Songs About Setting
You want a place that feels like a character. You want listeners to smell the coffee, taste the summer air, and remember the streetligh...
How to Write Songs About Lies
Lies are delicious for songwriters. They come with built in drama, moral friction, and a built in reason for a chorus to explode. Lies ...
How to Write Songs About Future
You want a future song that feels prophetic without sounding like a tired sci fi trope. You want listeners to tuck the chorus into a pl...
How to Write Songs About Oration
You want a song that sounds like a speech but hits like a chorus. You want the urgency of a mic drop combined with a melody a crowd can...
How to Write Songs About Learning
Learning is messy and beautiful and full of receipts you did not ask for. Whether you are writing about learning to play guitar, learni...
How to Write Songs About Education
You want a song that teaches without sounding like a dusty lecture. You want lyrics that hit home with students parents teachers and li...