{"id":7421,"date":"2016-07-28T03:24:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T07:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.online.berklee.edu\/andreastolpe\/?p=194"},"modified":"2025-10-08T14:56:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T19:56:52","slug":"how-to-write-song-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/how-to-write-song-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Write Song Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-wondering-how-to-write-song-lyrics-start-with-these-five-practical-tips\">Wondering How to Write Song Lyrics? Start with These Five Practical Tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know how to write song lyrics, it can be overwhelming to imagine&nbsp;where to start. I often hear from my online students how relieving it is to bring structure and tools into the mix as we delve into lyric writing. Within the first four weeks, most students have much greater clarity about what makes a good lyric, and how to craft one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll outline a few ideas here to get us started, and suggest the online courses <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/courses\/lyric-writing-writing-from-the-title?campaign_id=7010Z000001ZkQgQAK&amp;pid=&amp;utm_source=takenote&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=bol-gen-takenote-article-link-stolpe-how-to-write-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\">Lyric Writing: Writing from the Title<\/a><\/em>, <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/courses\/commercial-songwriting-techniques?campaign_id=7010Z000001ZkQgQAK&amp;pid=&amp;utm_source=takenote&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=bol-gen-takenote-article-link-stolpe-how-to-write-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\">Commercial Songwriting Techniques<\/a><\/em>, and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/courses\/lyric-writing-tools-and-strategies?campaign_id=7010Z000001ZkQgQAK&amp;pid=&amp;utm_source=takenote&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=bol-gen-takenote-article-link-stolpe-how-to-write-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Lyric Writing: Tools and Strategies<\/a><\/em> for further study. Here are five tips for writing song lyrics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-1-start-with-what-you-want-to-say\"><strong>1. Start with what you want to say.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The first tip when learning how to write lyrics for a song is get familiar with journaling and using your senses. Taste, touch, sight, sound, smell, and movement are descriptors that help bring your listener into an experience of a small moment. A small moment is a snapshot of life, a scene where your song is set within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>We hear these small moments all over in songwriting\u2014the singer\u2019s bedroom at 2 AM, driving down Santa Monica Boulevard, or hot-wiring a stolen car. It\u2019s these moments that place the listener in the heat of the moment. Try choosing a small moment and writing about it using your senses of taste, touch, sight, sound, smell, and movement. Don\u2019t try to rhyme, and don\u2019t write with a particular rhythmic pattern. Just write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2-read-lyrics-from-other-artists-don-t-listen-to-the-songs\"><strong>2. Read lyrics from other artists (don\u2019t listen to the songs!).<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Notice how much repetition, simple language, and how clean and clear is the main message in the chorus. What message do you want your listener to walk away from the song knowing? This is your chorus. What small moment shows a great example of that main message? This is your first verse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"TAKE A SONGWRITING COURSE WITH ANDREA STOLPE (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/faculty\/andrea-stolpe?campaign_id=7010Z000001ZkQgQAK&amp;pid=&amp;utm_source=takenote&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=bol-gen-takenote-article-link-stolpe-how-to-write-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>TAKE A SONGWRITING COURSE WITH ANDREA STOLPE<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-3-notice-the-conversational-quality\"><strong>3. Notice the conversational quality.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The third tip for writing song lyrics is write like you speak. We speak English, we write English, we tell stories from our lives, and have meaningful conversations with friends. But for some reason as soon as we start lyric writing, we believe those skills are not enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We get obscenely abstract and poetic, contorting the language to get our rhymes to fall at the ends of the lines even when the content no longer makes sense. We forget what we\u2019re really trying to say in the first place, trying to give the song a breadth and meaning that DaVinci himself couldn\u2019t capture in the expression on Mona Lisa. Why? Because we almost failed high school English class? Perhaps. But keep in mind that the most important quality of a great lyric is authenticity.&nbsp;Write like you would if you were relaying the story to a small group of people who&nbsp;care about you and what you have to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-4-lengthy-lyrics-compound-problems\"><strong>4. Lengthy lyrics compound problems.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Try writing a simple verse (such as four or six lines) moving into a chorus with lots of repetition. Or, try starting a song with the chorus. Simplicity is hard to master, but worth pursuing. The longer a lyric becomes, the greater the potential for confusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-5-collaborate-as-frequently-as-possible-with-good-lyricists\"><strong>5. Collaborate as frequently as possible with good lyricists.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Soak up some of that good lyric writing energy, and you\u2019ll soon realize that you have good ideas too. You\u2019ll also soon realize how closely linked lyric rhythm is to melodic rhythm, opening up a whole new area for your melodies and lyrics alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/songwriting?campaign_id=7010Z000001ZkQgQAK&amp;pid=&amp;utm_source=takenote&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=bol-gen-takenote-article-link-stolpe-how-to-write-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Learn more about studying songwriting online with Berklee.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to write song lyrics for the first time with these five steps from singer and multiplatinum songwriter  Andrea Stolpe at Berklee Online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9561,7579,29,9566],"tags":[6157,169,172,7150,7151,7149,852,853,1318,6906,1319,1320,1347,7152],"class_list":["post-7421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-basics-lessons","category-lesson-content","category-songwriting-lessons","category-songwriting-articles","tag-andrea-stolpe","tag-berklee-college-of-music","tag-berklee-online","tag-how-to-write-lyrics-for-a-song","tag-how-to-write-music-lyrics","tag-how-to-write-song-lyrics","tag-lyric","tag-lyric-writing","tag-songwriting","tag-songwriting-techniques","tag-songwriting-tips","tag-songwriting-tutorial","tag-steps","tag-tips-for-writing-song-lyrics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.8 (Yoast SEO v25.8) - 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