![]() You’re trying to build up a repertoire of techniques and tools – direct from the art you love. Try to understand how and why the lyric works. Think about why the person who wrote each lyric made the specific choices they made. Print some of your favorites off and start covering them in pencil annotations. The internet contains virtually every lyric you could ever want to see. ![]() I’m not joking: get your analytical brain on. How to Write Better Lyrics: Study Different Lyrics. Keep practicing and you’ll be writing better lyrics in no time. (And if you don’t now, you will in a few years.) But that’s fine. Just like training in the gym or learning a new language, with writing lyrics you have to put in the hours if you want to make progress.Īnd what should you write? Whatever you feel like. Honestly. Start training your brain to think, live and breathe lyrics. Set aside ten, twenty, eighty minutes a day to sit down with a yellow pad or blank screen and get some words down. So before we look at five specific things you can think about to write better lyrics, here are the three big things you absolutely must be doing for any of those ideas to be useful to you. You have to say exactly the things you mean, using only a few words, all while making sure it rhymes, scans and works rhythmically the way you want it to. Lyric writing is pretty much the most difficult thing you can do with words. ![]() If you’ve ever wondered how you can write better lyrics, I’ll give you the honest answer: practice more. ![]()
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