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 Silence
Silence is not empty. Silence is full of everything you were too scared to say. If you want to write a song that makes a room lean in, ...
How to Write Songs About Gardens
You want a song that smells like wet soil and makes people feel like they remember a summer they almost forgot. Gardens are emotional g...
How to Write Songs About Fantasy
You want to build a kingdom inside three minutes and make people care. You want lyrics that read like a page turner and melodies that f...
How to Write Songs About Mentorship
Mentorship is messy, touching, hilarious, and worth a song. You want a track that honors a teacher, a road dog, a bitter wise friend, o...
How to Write Songs About Unmaking
You want a song that excavates what falls apart and leaves a bruise that also feels honest enough to heal. Whether you mean the end of ...
How to Write Songs About Growth
Growth songs are not motivational posters with melodies. Growth songs are honest travelogues from one version of you to another version...
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 Making
When it comes to writing songs about making, it's essential to understand the concept of making itself. What does making mean to you? I...
How to Write Songs About Cities
Cities are messy, loud, beautiful, ridiculous, and brutal in equal measure. That makes them perfect songwriting fuel. You can write a l...