Tag Archives: Deep Song Lyric Breakdown
Tori Amos - Silent All These Years Song Lyric Breakdown For Songwriters
Want to steal craft ideas from one of the most intimate piano songs of the early 1990s and actually use them in your own songwriting? G...
James Blake - Retrograde Song Lyric Breakdown For Songwriters
If you have ever felt like crying quietly into your cereal while a synth holds your chest in place, this is the analysis for you. James...
Fela Kuti - Water No Get Enemy Song Lyric Breakdown For Songwriters
Short version You want to steal the power of Water No Get Enemy without sounding like a museum exhibit. You want the groove, the truth,...
Nick Cave - Into My Arms Song Lyric Breakdown For Songwriters
If you want to write a love song that feels like a prayer and hits like a gut punch study this one. Nick Cave wrote a song called Into ...
Fiona Apple - Criminal Song Lyric Breakdown For Songwriters
Listen to Fiona Apple and feel guilty about everything you ever did while dancing in your kitchen with a wine glass that is not full en...
D’Angelo - Untitled (How Does It Feel) Song Lyric Breakdown For Songwriters
If you have ever tried to write a love song that makes people melt and then want to leave the room because it feels too honest you are ...
St. Vincent - New York Song Lyric Breakdown For Songwriters
This is a lyric autopsy with personality. We are taking Annie Clark a.k.a St. Vincent's song New York and pulling it apart like a vinta...
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 ...
Sara Bareilles - Gravity Song Lyric Breakdown For Songwriters
If you want to write a ballad that feels like someone reached into your chest and turned the lights on, Gravity is a masterclass. Sara ...
Sting - Fields of Gold Song Lyric Breakdown For Songwriters
This is not a dusty musicology lecture. This is a rowdy, affectionate, slightly tipsy dissection of how Sting built one of those songs ...