The Secret To Writing Lyrics

The Secret To Writing Lyrics

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Lyrics are one of the most important aspects of songwriting: They're the first thing most people listen to, and they convey your song's story more clearly than anything else. But they're really hard, right? Language is so complicated and weird that many of the structural approaches we theorists like to take for chords and stuff just don't work. Well, fortunately for us, we're not the only ones asking these sorts of questions, and the answers are out there. We just have to look a little further afield.

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Last: https://youtu.be/t2uNFpCRG9I
Rhyming video: https://youtu.be/ToOqsk8m220
One Week: https://youtu.be/fC_q9KPczAg
Cardboard Castles: https://youtu.be/FN1OR1aa2cM
Accents video: https://youtu.be/JMxzLOSlhbs
Sonnets video: https://youtu.be/-qoT5oReP0k

Script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ARBcjTR_0EkZt3Nb3ATtobroLCnyhPbiwNVmKtN2gQU/edit?usp=sharing

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Also, thanks to Jareth Arnold and Jade Tan-Holmes for proofreading the script to make sure this all makes sense hopefully!

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@KL-xv5gj
@KL-xv5gj - 03.01.2024 16:50

Your drawing although nice, yet very distacting the core messages you were making.

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@drakands8452
@drakands8452 - 03.01.2024 04:15

i can make orange rhyme with banana

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@palereaper
@palereaper - 21.12.2023 23:21

Bad video

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@user-fv7mv1oh9d
@user-fv7mv1oh9d - 15.12.2023 20:43

I've written 300 songs and can tell you that yes, lyrics are hard, but also can tell you this video will not help you at all.

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@KMICX
@KMICX - 13.12.2023 00:02

The visual learning people r worshiping this guy rn

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@anshikakashyap2000
@anshikakashyap2000 - 12.12.2023 15:18

"The fire of my desire never exhausted,
It kept me burning like a forest,
All I knew was her denial; the sounds of my heart pounding and my dials."

Great Video!!

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@MyLinaee
@MyLinaee - 11.12.2023 11:11

The problem is how to make them fit, and make them long enough.

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@los9952
@los9952 - 09.12.2023 07:16

My bars are heat my bars are heat my bar kick off like soccer cleats

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@PotassiumCat6163
@PotassiumCat6163 - 07.12.2023 02:57

Carrot smoking pipe

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@moo639
@moo639 - 03.12.2023 15:44

If you don't have an answer, say there is no answer!

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@fielpanganiban6463
@fielpanganiban6463 - 02.12.2023 21:31

I watched this before

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@saintali
@saintali - 02.12.2023 14:14

Listen to MF Doom

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@blanebeats8647
@blanebeats8647 - 27.11.2023 21:30

Don't ever let anyone sell you anything. Great video fr

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@Temperest.
@Temperest. - 19.11.2023 00:48

POV Poetry that can’t be in a song:
As the past flew by
A new sly came ary.

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@Krubble
@Krubble - 18.11.2023 20:55

all my lyrics are about Graham Crackers

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@SquatchHuggler
@SquatchHuggler - 18.11.2023 00:32

She was a girl
Living in a world

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@astargmoneynevaendz999
@astargmoneynevaendz999 - 04.11.2023 06:31

Shout out duck

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@plaidallergy
@plaidallergy - 01.11.2023 05:18

oh okay, they’re BNL now. we need a shorthand for the Barenaked Ladies. that’s how fundamental they are?

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@Tpood-us8sg
@Tpood-us8sg - 30.10.2023 22:38

sorry but all the drawings is more distracting than everything else...

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@bruhguy4208
@bruhguy4208 - 24.10.2023 23:07

Pain is lyric fuel

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@phewiss3066
@phewiss3066 - 19.10.2023 08:17

When I write lyrics, its usually just the first words that come to my mind. They don't have meaning and probably don't even rhyme. They just have to not sound stupid and they have to sound like they fit. Which isn't too hard.

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@brennantate4520
@brennantate4520 - 16.10.2023 08:30

Hey man!! Love the channel!! Can you do The Gift of Music by Theocracy????

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@tristanmisja
@tristanmisja - 13.10.2023 07:36

or be mentally deranged

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@MikuSakuraa
@MikuSakuraa - 13.10.2023 01:43

or be traumatized

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@ThePerfectAssassin
@ThePerfectAssassin - 12.10.2023 18:56

The poem thing is true I started off as a poet and someone told me to take up song writing, found myself being able to say things ppl who where composing music before me wished they could say

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@mrtoast244
@mrtoast244 - 10.10.2023 15:49

The lyrics in "Under the Bridge" by RHCP was actually taken from a poem Anthony Kiedis wrote, one that he probably had no intention of ever turning into a song

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@shadowentertainment3.02
@shadowentertainment3.02 - 07.10.2023 21:35

Great 🎶cal, information 👍🇯🇲🎶

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@_gamingtv_
@_gamingtv_ - 06.10.2023 12:00

Just use chargpt 😂

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@Big_Smile999
@Big_Smile999 - 30.09.2023 22:34

Its more about to dissolve in the culture not in grammmer technically

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@MashFoot
@MashFoot - 25.09.2023 06:48

Just go insane

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@andreholobiont265
@andreholobiont265 - 22.09.2023 12:08

Earl sweatshirt - earl

Is a good way to look at lyrics through a caleidoscope

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@Kthirty4
@Kthirty4 - 21.09.2023 10:55

I love music and the essence of it I love the process of writing and creating new music I thank god for music 🖤

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@sueelliott4793
@sueelliott4793 - 21.09.2023 09:09

I would have loved this 40 years ago.....but then we never had internet. Thanks 😊better late than never.

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@mracw21
@mracw21 - 20.09.2023 17:24

So no one’s gonna talk about how this guy is speaking to us by combining drawing and talking?! Dude is creative af

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@Langtw
@Langtw - 20.09.2023 16:32

Even the idea of focusing on rhyme doesn't really capture it imo. Some of the most impactful lyrics don't rhyme, or at least it doesn't seem like rhyming was a goal. For instance:
"Beams of fire sweep through my head
Thrusts of pain increasingly engaged
Sensory receptors succumb
I am no one now
Only agony"

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@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei
@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei - 19.09.2023 04:07

Lyrics are poetry set to music and poetry was originally set to music. The term lyric comes from Ancient Greek Lyric poetry which was usually accompanied by a lyre (or cithara ect.).

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@davidecircuri7557
@davidecircuri7557 - 18.09.2023 18:28

I mean that's not wrong but u cant do a guide how to make art.
Just write what u feel

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@brendonslife4584
@brendonslife4584 - 17.09.2023 02:34

i know how to write lyrics, i just dont know how to make melodies!!!

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@jamesmoran7511
@jamesmoran7511 - 16.09.2023 11:30

Stick to drawing scribbles. Either people can write or they can't. You can't teach talent.

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@SamChaneyProductions
@SamChaneyProductions - 13.09.2023 20:50

If you want to know what good lyrics are, listen to Joanna Newsom

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@ImYourOverlord
@ImYourOverlord - 08.09.2023 06:02

Semi rhymes are weak.

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@benjaminbee2902
@benjaminbee2902 - 02.09.2023 11:41

You don't have to rhyme in songs.
There are tons of successful songs that don't rhyme or only rhyme once.

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@johnwebb4499
@johnwebb4499 - 02.09.2023 05:33

Now that you're done... look at what you drew. ... A summers day secret.
About 2 elephants kissing 😅

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@shanelarue8162
@shanelarue8162 - 31.08.2023 18:27

Very cool and useful analysis. The lack of pauses kinda hurts my brain but u really crammed a ton into this vid

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@mahmassanymoustafakids
@mahmassanymoustafakids - 29.08.2023 02:54

IS THIS GUY A SINGER OR PICCASO?!HES SO GOOD AT DRAWING

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@AlytheAlleyWay
@AlytheAlleyWay - 25.08.2023 08:24

Ive always wondered what people do first... Do you make the beat for the song or do you write the lyrics first?

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@AaronTwocrows
@AaronTwocrows - 18.08.2023 05:01

eminem enters the chat

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@YoungsterSkaymore
@YoungsterSkaymore - 15.08.2023 21:57

Writing rap is so frickin fun man and has made me such a better lyricist for non rap as well

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@trevorgwelch7412
@trevorgwelch7412 - 09.08.2023 05:32

The Real Secret : You Must Be Born With Musical Talent and Perfect Pitch . 😊 . Listen to GORDON LIGHTFOOT /// ROBIN TROWER AND JAMES DEWAR

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