How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Building
You want a song that makes people feel the grit of concrete and the warmth of a new foundation. Maybe you mean literal building, like a...
How to Write Songs About Forests
You want a song that makes a listener smell pine without actually lighting a candle. You want lyrics that feel like a hike at midnight....
How to Write Songs About Rivers
Rivers are dramatic by default. They carry history, secrets, lovers, trash, and hope. They are weather with a bank. Rivers can be a cha...
How to Write Songs About Desire
You want your listener to feel a heat that makes them move, call, cry, and maybe text an ex at 2 a.m. Desire is the engine of countless...
How to Write Songs About Peace
You want a song that feels like a deep breath in a world that always wants more drama. You want a lyric that does not sound like a gree...
How to Write Songs About Paradox
Paradox in songwriting is emotional cheat code. You tell two truths that seem to cancel each other and the listener leans in. Contradic...
How to Write Songs About Approach
Approach is the emotional moment before action. It is the breath before the kiss, the wobble before the stage lights, the thumb hoverin...
How to Write Songs About Longing
Longing is the music of wanting that never gets boring. It is the ache in your chest when you think about a late night text that never ...
How to Write Songs About Duty
Duty is not glamorous. Duty shows up at 6 a.m. with coffee and a flannel shirt. You can make it holy. You can make it tragic. You can m...
How to Write Songs About Leadership
You want a song that makes people stand a little taller. You want words that could be printed on a mug and still make someone act. You ...