How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Endings
You want an ending that lands like someone finally saying the thing everyone already knew. You want lyrics that make your listener nod,...
How to Write Songs About Acceptance
You want a song that lands like a hug and a punch at the same time. Acceptance songs are weirdly powerful. They quiet the chaos and the...
How to Write Songs About Unity
You want a song that brings people together. You want lines that sound like they were written on a protest sign and also like a hug. Yo...
How to Write Songs About Nostalgia
Nostalgia is not just memory. Nostalgia is a mood that smells like the past and sounds like a page turn. If you want a song that makes ...
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 Service
You want to write a song that honors work done for others. Maybe you are writing about a server who stays late for a table of regulars....
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 Symbols
Symbols are the cheat codes of songwriting. A single image can carry a whole mood, a backstory, and a culture sized crater of meaning. ...
How to Write Songs About Turmoil
You want your chaos to feel true and not like a melodramatic audition tape for a soap opera. Songs about turmoil are magnetic when they...
How to Write Songs About Identity crisis
You are not the only one who has googled themselves at 2 a.m. Identity crises are the secret fuel of great music. They make people paus...