How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Union
You want a song that makes people feel joined up. Maybe you mean two lovers finally synced like wireless earbuds. Maybe you mean a neig...
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 Destiny
Destiny sounds big. It smells like cinematic lighting and smells like smoke machines and it also looks like your ex on the subway at 2 ...
How to Write Songs About Patience
Patience is not boring. Patience is dramatic. Waiting for a text, waiting for a record label to notice you, waiting for your brain to g...
How to Write Songs About Ambition
You want a song that makes the listener want to stand up, quit the job they hate, and call their future self a name with respect. Songs...
How to Write Songs About Continuation
You want a song that feels like tomorrow without pretending yesterday did not happen. A song about continuation is not a promise. It is...
How to Write Songs About Detachment
You want a song that feels like pulling your hand out of warm water and deciding that is enough. Detachment songs live in that thin gra...
How to Write Songs About Rights
You want your music to matter and not just sound sincere on Instagram. You want a lyric that punches through the noise, a melody that p...
How to Write Songs About Harmony
You want a song that talks about harmony without sounding like a kindergarten music teacher or a yoga retreat brochure. You want lyrics...
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. ...