How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Clarification
You want to write a song that untangles the noise in your head and hands it back to the listener like a clear receipt. Songs about clar...
How to Write Songs About Experience
Want your songs to feel like truth in a bottle? Good. That is exactly the plan. Songs about experience are the ones that make people no...
How to Write Songs About Deception
Deception makes for great drama and even better hooks. Lies, half truths, self tricking, and performance that hides an ache are the fue...
How to Write Songs About Finish
You want a song that nails the feeling of finishing something. Maybe it is the end of a relationship, the final lap of a race, the mome...
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 Rural life
You want a song that smells like diesel, fresh cut hay, and the last good beer at a county fair. You want lines that make people who gr...
How to Write Songs About Characters
Characters are cheat codes for songwriting. They give you choices, stakes, voice, and a built in arc. A great character makes listeners...
How to Write Songs About Productivity
You want a song that turns to do lists into something a crowd can scream back at a bar or whisper into their earbuds at 2 a.m. Producti...
How to Write Songs About Identity
You want a song that smells like you without being a diary entry that only you can enjoy. You want a lyric that makes someone else nod ...
How to Write Songs About Darkness
You want a song that feels like walking into a room and finding the light switched off on purpose. You want the listener to feel the ch...