How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Fate
You want fate to feel personal and cinematic at the same time. You want lines that read like a fortune cookie and sting like an old tex...
How to Write Songs About Seasons changing
Seasons are the world texting you back with color and attitude. One minute you are in sweaty neon summer and the next you are arguing w...
How to Write Songs About Enchantment
You want your listeners to believe in small magic by the time the second chorus hits. You want a lyric that smells like midnight jasmin...
How to Write Songs About Allies
You want to write a song that honors someone who stands up for others. You want it to feel authentic. You want it to avoid sounding lik...
How to Write Songs About Storytelling
Story songs are the songs that make people text their friends with one line, that sit in the back of your head like a guilty pleasure, ...
How to Write Songs About Interdependence
You want a song that honors connection without sounding like a motivational poster. You want lyrics that feel honest when two people si...
How to Write Songs About Inaction
You want to write a song that makes doing nothing feel like a plot twist. Songs about inaction are quietly violent. They trap a listene...
How to Write Songs About Adversaries
You want to write about someone who wronged you and make it art and not a passive aggressive voicemail. Songs about adversaries are del...
How to Write Songs About Armistice
So you want to write a song about armistice. Great. That means you want to write about endings that are loud enough to change everythin...
How to Write Songs About Childhood
Want to turn that crooked backyard swing, your grandma's cereal bowl, or the mixtape you made on a boombox into a song that actually la...