Yeah, borrowing from a famous sports brand there, but it’s pretty damn contextual, right? The best way to improve on any artistic enterprise – including mastering how to write lyrics – is to do it. This is your basic, generalized guide for how to write lyrics. What’s going to be laid out here are some techniques to try – plain and simple. So, let’s park any pre-conceptions about writing songs right now.
Received wisdom also says that a lot of consumers of music aren’t that interested in lyrics.Īnd then I can find any amount of examples online to disprove that. In the US it’s a ‘bridge’, but in the UK it might well be the ‘middle 8’. Part of the problem with analysing all things ‘song’, is terminology, and also, received wisdom. Presuming you already write them, of course! But then, bearing in mind that most art is subjective, and one person’s meat is another’s poison, perhaps a smarter title still might be: how to write better lyrics. What an innocuous title, right? I mean how hard can it be to write lyrics? I could be unhelpful here, and retort, ‘How long is a piece of string?’ Because while there are only 12 notes in the scale, there are hundreds of thousands of words, and therefore billions of potential combinations.Ī better title for this article might be: how to write good lyrics.
