Tag Archives: Deep Song Lyric Breakdown

Quick promise. You will leave with a set of concrete tools you can steal from Bernie Taupin and Elton John to write more vivid lyrics, ...

If you write songs and you have ever wanted to unpack how a quiet lyric can feel like a punch to the throat, welcome. Beth Orton wrote ...

If you want a masterclass in saying a lot with very few words, Royals is a cheat code. Lorde and producer Joel Little turned tiny detai...

This is not a museum plaque analysis. This is brutal honesty with glitter. We will pull apart Mitski s Your Best American Girl line by ...

This is a song about motion, fatigue, and being gloriously human in low battery mode. Jackson Browne wrote Running on Empty as more tha...

Want to steal the secret sauce from SZA without sounding like a SZA cosplayer at an open mic? Good. Welcome. We are going to pull apart...

Here is the deal. You want to learn how a song like Colter Wall's Sleeping on the Blacktop does emotional work with spare words and a g...

This is not a boring museum tour. We are going to rip open one of the greatest simple songs ever written and take out the parts that ma...

This is not a scholarly obituary for a lyric. This is a map. We are going to unpack Joan Baez Diamonds & Rust like it is a luggage ...

Paul McCartney wrote Maybe I’m Amazed in a bathtub of feelings and piano chords. He recorded the song in 1970 for his first solo album ...