Tag Archives: Deep Song Lyric Breakdown

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...

If you want to write a song that feels like being shoved into a shower of gravel while someone reads your diary out loud then this is t...

Quick promise You will leave this breakdown with concrete tools you can steal for your own songs. We will pry open Hozier's lyrics line...

This is not a love letter to nostalgia. This is a surgical dissection of a song that feels like a hug and also like someone pinched you...

If you have ever cried into your headphones at 2 AM while a piano asks too many questions, this one is for you. Sarah McLachlan Angel i...

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...

You want a lyric that feels like a private text message and a funeral candle at the same time. Morrissey managed this with There Is a L...

If you want to steal credibility without actually stealing a voice then study Leonard Cohen and his song Hallelujah. This is a lyric au...

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 ...

You love this song because it feels like freedom in fuzzy velvet boots. Janis Joplin took a country tune and gutted it with raw heart a...