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Do you find it easy to write songs? Too easy? Well, I at least have had a problem with this.

If you would visit our home and my garage you would find a lot of unfinished songs and a lot of manuscript paper with some notes on them showing that I wanted to say something with music but never finished it.

Maybe you always finish your songs, record them or have well documented lists with your songs for easy access. That’s the way I work now but obviously didn’t work before.

Nowadays I have started to realize the importance of finishing songs that I have found enough important to start writing in the first place.

I think it is important for you and me to complete songs we have started to write for the following reasons:

1. It is when songs are complete that other people can benefit from them and you can feel that you have contributed something to the benefit of others and to yourself.

2. It has a positive effect on your subconsious mind to take your composition the whole way to completion. It will give you the realization that you can write songs. It’s that simple!

3. As I mentioned before you will avoid having a lot of unfinished songs hanging around. It can be unfinished recordings or pieces of paper with a few words on them indicating an attempt to create something that probably meant a lot then but now is just words.

If you are signed to a recording company you will be more or less forced to produce things. The product will hopefully be a CD with maybe twelve songs on it and a show for your promotion tour.

It seems like slavery to be forced to produce a product like a CD. But having this obvious goal to work towards and the pressure involved can actually promote creativity.

If you are not signed to a record label you can benefit from working with your songs in a similar way.

1. Set a goal to produce for example three songs and set the prerequisites like writing one love ballad, one uptempo song and a waltz.

2. When you have made the songs record them and burn them on a CD.

3. Learn the songs by heart and sing and play them for your friends.

Doing this will increase your faith in your ability to produce songs and I think you will feel a greater joy and satisfaction in your great enterprise to write songs for the benefit of mankind and, of course, yourself.

Here’s how to write lyrics that stand out and shine for the listener. Here are some tricks to grab your listener and make them want to hear every detail of your songs lyric and music.

Come up with an interesting idea that all people feel. Listen to all the conversations around you, in bars, at work, in the emergency waiting room and in your everyday conversations.

Keep notes and use them to come up with an outline for your song. To learn how to write lyrics you need to decide on a song form, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus for instance.

The outline can be one sentence for each of the first verse, chorus, second verse, and bridge. Make the story progress to become more and more intimate as it goes.

Try to make each verse give a new angle on the chorus. This is called “color the chorus”. Make the chorus have new meaning each time you hear it.

Focus on one main idea for the song and describe it in great detail when learning how to write lyrics. Narrow all things in your song down to relate only to that idea. Use other good ideas that don’t quite fit in another song.

Decide on a hook (main phrase and meaning) for your chorus. It should wrap up everything in your song. In other words every line in your song should relate directly to your hook and give it new meaning.

Make sure to put long vowel sounds in your chorus and hook so the singer can hold out the notes easier.

When you write your lyric choose words that show what you mean as compared to just telling what you mean. Find new ways to say “I love you” common phrases. Turn these old cliches into new examples that demonstrate what you mean.

Be specific, be specific, be specific is the key on how to write lyrics! Don’t say a “car”, give its name and color or make. Do this for all words you use. Don’t just say it was “raining”, describe it, how it sounded, how it felt, how it tasted. Do this will all your words.

Find words (verbs, nouns, and adjectives) that are loaded with power and emotion for the listener. Use a thesaurus to find words. Use action verbs not passive verbs because they don’t cause action in your song. Keep all your lyrics in action at all times.

Brainstorm you first lyrics and don’t judge them at first, just write and come back later and edit. Get you thoughts out on paper. Organize them later. Decide on a rhyme scheme. Make the rhyme scheme different in the verses than the chorus.

Make the meter and rhyme scheme in the verses match each other so the song will be easier to sing and flow better.

Keep you sentences as short as possible, cut all the unnecessary words. Focus your words on the one theme in your song when you think about how to write lyrics.

Use humor, irony, times and dates, proper names and place names whenever you can. Find ways to get them in. Listen to your inner voice when you are rewriting. Ask yourself how to write lyrics so the listener will hear what you have written.

Write for the listener not yourself. Try to speak to the listener in conversational language.

Find a non-family member to critique you song, if something doesn’t seem to hit the listener as you intended, consider changing it. Don’t get hung up on little things, the purpose is to communicate your ideas.

Change you song if it isn’t communicating well. Always respect how people have heard you song as compared to how you think they should hear it.

How to write lyrics is the art of engaging your listeners in the story, pictures and emotions of your song.

Writing a song can be very hard at times. As you learned from past articles, the first thing you should try and come up with before writing your song is the title. The next thing that follows is relevant lines to the title.

You can come up with questions to assist you in coming up with lines that are relevant to the title. For example, say you come up with the title “Gimmie Dat”. Ask questions like whose saying gimmie dat? What is that you want the person to give? Why do you want it? What does it look like?

The title that you choose to ask questions about should be interesting. All you have to do is follow your feelings. Search Google and try and come up with a list of words, images and phrases that go with your title.

Learning how to write a song is hard work and you should take time out daily to study your song writing craft. People like songs they can relate to. They like songs that tell a story, that are meaningful. Many songs become hits because people fit themselves into artist’s songs. So try and rap about your own experiences.

At the same time don’t get me wrong, you don’t have to rap about a certain thing or a certain way.  Some people feel its wrong as a rapper to do a song and rap about stuff they never did or stories they never lived.  This type of thinking is really silly if you think about it.  Music is and always will be a form of experssion, of feeling and emotion.  Feelings and emotions that we all feel and that we can All EXPRESS…once again – MUSIC IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE A FORM OF EXPRESSION.  Of what? EXPRESSION.

Do you get it now?  That type of thinking will keep you in a box.  Don’t let it trap you into losing your creativity.  Each song you create is a movie that captures your listeners.  That would be like telling a movie director oh, you can make a movie about that because you haven’t lived it.  Isn’t that rediculous?  Your mind will take you places you never imagined, but only if you let it.