How do you improve your lyric writing?

Answer 1

To improve your lyrics inspiration, interest in the song topic, the ability to be unique thoughts of you're own, a good vocabulary, devotion, and these tips are a one way trip to master lyricist.

Writing lyrics can be done in many ways, you may be writing pop lyrics with no meaning to you or anything whatsoever.

Or you can write lyrics with meaning, feelings emotion, your philosophy.

I'm forever humming thinking of ideas, rhythms and sometimes imagining a guitar is enough you think of a heavy riff you like it.

You memorize it, now you're thinking that it's a dark aggressive feel.

You're imagination goes deep into you're self conscious so what you imagined is probably to do with your feelings.

so it's dark, heavy aggressive metal riff, think why do you feel like that, now get out a pen/pencil and paper or sit at a computer and prepare to write.

(Don't worry it can be anything don't concentrate on it you might just tap your fingers on the table just a tune you play in your head don't compose it let it come naturally it's a habit of mine.)

For instance you are bullied hated, or maybe you're mum has had a right old go at you I don't know you're age so I don't know what you'd relate to.

You think how unjust it is for the best effect immerse yourself in that feeling think about it deep go deeper if you have a problem you can't figure writing about it makes you think further and a solution can uncover itself there is more than just a little blip with your mum.

You realize I've been pushed around your whole life. You put on you're angry face and think about that again key words.

hatred, injustice, despair, pugnacity, despair, forsaken, love,

Anything a significant word. So you're thinking of these words just like before jamm in your head if you can then do it out loud.

You might have been putting some of those keywords with other words making lines if you like it memorize it or write it down you're song has a family tree and it goes like this.

song feel (happy, sad, angry)

song meaning (what you're song is about)

key words (the most relevant powerful words to your song meaning).

(key verse)

Once you have a few lines you'll pick maybe one to start your song.

How can you rhyme with it?

Think through your vocabulary is there another key word that rhymes or another word that also supports your story, no that's fine other rhyming words that help your song flow work too but keep on topic. Bearing in mind the rhythm of your first line you've got to think of how you're verse flow will go. I cannot explain how to do this hopefully you will figure it out.

Once you rhyme sing those lines to yourself what would sound nice after you're first two lines there's a chance the next two follow the same flow or maybe just one more does and then the fourth line changes.

look at this part of a piece I wrote

I'm just another

(talking)

How many times have you lied to me

fed me these sweet lies when soever I shalt fall on the bitter ground and told me it'll be alright

That same blood worn ground that I fell upon so many times where we grovel like dogs

my hair is wet

my soul is scarred

I'm drenched in blood

I'm just another

(loud shrill screams dominate the audio)

(singing)

I walk these streets

naked forgotten invisible

I scream for help

but no one hears my call

cold hands down my neck

lustrous cold breath portent of doom

fluid exchanges in deserted rooms

knife torn skin lacerations for a fetish and boon

insanity growing in the earth it's womb

the sun bleeds

night shrouds

hope is slain

covered by blackened clouds

bring me from the rain

take me from this eternal storm

my hope is lost

my soul is raped

I'm drenched in blood

I'm just another

kill me kill me!

but puppeteers know that death is too sweet

staring at padded walls

with faces the ensnare with piercing glares lead my soul to despair

I clutch my head

these voices in my mind an imperium of macabre

never see sanity

ever screaming souls of damnation

fight to control my mind no liberation

I awake each night blood on my hands

mutilating corpses rotting in an hourglass of condemned sands

the sun bleeds

night shrouds

hope is slain

covered by blackened clouds

bring me from the rain

take me from this eternal storm

my hope is lost

my soul is raped

I'm drenched in blood

I'm just another

kill me kill me!

but puppeteers know that death is too sweet

(that is all you need to see)

notice the flow is consistent and the topic and feel of the song is ever present do the same to keep the feeling running.

thinking of different flows for different areas of your song some advice to remember for different parts of a song.

intro (the start of the song (optional)

verse one (optional remember to keep your verse in a decent flow as you will probably use the same one but with new lyrics for you're other verses)

note that some songs open with an intro then a chorus some with a chorus some with an intro a verse then a chorus and some with a verse then a chorus.

mine was an intro a verse then a chorus for the opening lines

Chorus (recommended this is the part of your song that we'll keep coming back to)

verse 2 (common)

a chorus to folow (common)

a bridge (optional)

a solo (optional)

You may have a bridge or a solo or both.

verse 3 or pre chorus (optional)

chorus (common)

You may end the song here or repeat the chorus one more time maybe plan for it to be sung the last time a little higher or more powerfull notes or maybe change the lyrics slightly but keep the same flow.

outro (optional this could be the end of your song more commonly used in endings that fade and commonly just played by instruments)

Using these techniques and this song as a guide you should be able to write some lyrics but remember writing lyrics is in the soul not what some guy advises over wikianswers.