Tag Archives: Deep Song Lyric Breakdown
Ingrid Michaelson - The Way I Am Song Lyric Breakdown For Songwriters
Want to steal lessons from a tiny indie pop gem that sounds like a warm blanket and a wink at the same time? Ingrid Michaelson wrote a ...
Stevie Wonder - Superstition Song Lyric Breakdown For Songwriters
Stevie Wonder wrote a cultural lightning bolt and named it Superstition. The tune hits like a statement and keeps hitting because every...
John Mayer - Slow Dancing in a Burning Room Song Lyric Breakdown For Songwriters
Okay songwriter. You want to know why a three minute and forty second tune about two people failing spectacularly still makes grown hum...
Bill Withers - Ain’t No Sunshine Song Lyric Breakdown For Songwriters
This is not a museum tour. We are not quietly admiring a classic from a velvet rope. We are ripping open the lyric chest, pulling out t...
Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill Song Lyric Breakdown For Songwriters
If you want to write a song that feels like walking away from something heavy and into sunlight, Solsbury Hill is a master class. This ...
Caetano Veloso - Coração Vagabundo Song Lyric Breakdown For Songwriters
Read this if you want to rip the craft out of a classic and wear it like a vintage jacket. Caetano Veloso wrote Coração Vagabundo as a ...
Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind Song Lyric Breakdown For Songwriters
If you are a songwriter who wants to steal wisdom without sounding like a Lightfoot impersonator, you are in the right place. This brea...
Nina Simone - Mississippi Goddam Song Lyric Breakdown For Songwriters
This is not a warm and fuzzy nostalgia piece. This is a rowdy, honest, sometimes ugly master class in how a songwriter makes fury feel ...
Leonard Cohen - Suzanne Song Lyric Breakdown For Songwriters
If you want to steal a soulfully spare approach to songwriting without sounding like a sad MFA student, read this. We are going to unpa...
Damien Rice - The Blower’s Daughter Song Lyric Breakdown For Songwriters
Alright poets and melodramatic shower singers. You want to know how a single, spare song about obsessive love can punch like a slug to ...