How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Legends
You want a song that makes someone believe ancient fires still burn or that a small town rumor lives forever. You want to write about a...
How to Write Songs About Free will
You want a song that wrestles with destiny and makes people feel seen on the subway. You want philosophy that does not sound like a lec...
How to Write Songs About Forgiveness
You want a song that lands like a first honest text after weeks of ghosting. You want a lyric that can make a listener roll their eyes ...
How to Write Songs About Alienation
You want songs that make people feel understood without sounding like an internet pity party. Alienation is one of those emotions that ...
How to Write Songs About Creativity
You want a song that makes creative thinking sound sexy, messy, and honest. You want lyrics that name the fear and the thrill at once. ...
How to Write Songs About Distraction
Distraction is not a failure. It is a goldmine for songwriting. You are writing about a feeling that every listener knows intimately. P...
How to Write Songs About Genre
Want to write a song that either worships or roasts a musical style and still sounds like art and not a frat prank. Good. This guide te...
How to Write Songs About Soliloquy
Want to write songs that feel like someone talking to themselves onstage in slow motion. You want intimate confessions that still hit l...
How to Write Songs About Lasting love
You want a love song that sticks like a tattoo you actually like years later. You want lyrics that feel true at midnight and at brunch....
How to Write Songs About Equality
You want your song to do something real. You want people to listen, feel, and then act or at least remember. Songs about equality can c...