7 tips to write better lyrics for beginners (from the pros)

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I refuse to make sense when writing. Sense and meaning are subjective. And If I happen to make some kind of sense, then so be it.

I simply take words that I find visually and sonically attractive, strange and interesting, arrange and phrase them in a way that hopefully sounds like another language or something so incomprehensible that you are most often left to guess what I'm saying.

I am a new and aspiring songwriter and I enjoyed this video very much. These are great and useful tips. At the beginning of this year I started a challenge to write one song a day. The challenge is not necessarily to have a complete finished song each day but to write something every day. Rather than focus on quality, I am focusing on getting something onto paper every day. I currently use ruled index cards to write my ideas on and I currently have almost 7 full months of material to draw from, polish and further refine for songs. My husband issued me the challenge and the thought of it was overwhelming to me at first, but thus far I have been faithful to write something each day and it feels great.

I know that the best song writers write many many songs that never get heard to come to the great songs that we know and love. I figure that it is a numbers game and the more songs that I write, there will be some gems in the midst. I am really enjoying the process and have already learned a lot in a short time. This video speaks to where I am at inn my skill development so it comes as a welcomje find. Thank you and I look forward to viewing your other content.

The "So, But, As A Result" method is awesome. Thanks for this video!

Thanks you so much for this information 🙏❤

not the mouth smacking lmfao

These are great videos for beginners, thank you!

Such a great channel for songwriting tips. I'm a published songwriter and yet I didn't even know this channel existed. No matter how good a writer one thinks he/she is there's alway room for improvement and here lies the proof. Thank you for having this songwriter's channel. What a blessing.

I disagree when he says it “has” to. Sometimes the idea is something you find as you go. Music in reality is a nature thing, that was then studied. Meaning it cane naturually to people, then that music was studied to find out why it was good/to find the patterns. I think once it becomes a profession that’s when we often start approaching it more technically cause of the reliability.

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Love your analysis - new sub inbound! 😊

Your brilliant man.

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thank you for this video, i got the information to write me some good songs now even if they're not good at first, i know they will be, thank you and God Bless you !

Haha! Charade you are!

The 'monkey suit' concept is a really good one, and I'm looking forward to giving it a go this week Tony. BTW, I checked 'The River' as an example...Wow... Some lyric !!! As always, thanks a million Tony 👍

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These videos have been extremely helpful! For someone who's neurodivergent in thinking, splitting things up into sections definitely helps. I've been watching your different lyric writing videos and writing them down in my journal and then writing a general thesis for what I'm going to write. They work like formula in a recipe but instead for great food, it's great song lyrics! Thank you very much! This is my go to help channel for writing.

Love this channel!!

Excellent video/thanks

A lot of wisdom in these videos :)

I like lyrics that make me think, that can be interpreted in different ways.

"Prosthetic synthesis with butterfly"
"Spine is just a string"
"Then I got my wings, & I never even knew it"
"The rabbit's just a monkey in disguise"
"A crown of thorns is hard to swallow"
"Fear is not afraid of you"
"New cavity moved into my heart today"

These videos are awesome... Cheers man

where's the fre cheet sheet

your a genius

Just dropping in to say thank you for this video. Felt like I was bouncing off a friend. Keep up the great work

I love this!

McCartney definitely didn't write as many Beatles songs as the Tavistock Institute. Just sayin

Really like your style, accent and approach on this channel man 🤙

I'm so glad you made this videos, at this moment I don't have someone to work with so this really help me to explore my creativity
Thanks : )

Really good video man , I often get hit by either writers block or write a lot of stuff I absolutely hate

This video and your channel in general very helpful, thank you so much, Tony! 🙌🏻

When Sting speaks, I listen

Catch u nx time

Please make a video on how to put personal experiences in a song🙏

To use a term that has surfaced, I will say "fake", fake lyrics, fake songs. To me, I'd say, all that music you hear today, those kids playing that bebop pop slop is all fake*. These people just sit in front of a microphone and attempt to copy the power and the wisdom and the greatness of Adele, they sit in front of they microphones and blab. They blab all day, just blabbing whatever comes out of they're mouths. No rhythm no reason, just blab, trying to be Adele, and copycat off of her.
You can blab all day long and maybe something will sound cute. Blab lyrics cute lyrics. Then, still copying Adele, if it has a flare or a twist, but Adele is real. She is writing the books. Cutesy music, cutesy lyrics, but they can't beat Adele. She is the Original.
There have been two mega-monolithical periods in history that have occurred because of music.
There is the B.B. and the A.B. period, then there is the B.A. and the A.A. period. These two periods have altered mankind and social life as we know it and as we shall see it.
B.B. is Before the Beatles, and A.B. is After the Beatles. While B.A. is Before Adele and A.A. is After Adele.
The year 1961 BB, and 1962 AB. 2007 BA and 2008 AA.
All that pop today is fake music
Songs are songs when they are made as Sting is saying, with an idea prior to the writing. A story, an intent. Music can draw lyrics out of you in it's own creative inspirational way. But to sit in front of a Mike with no thought or idea and just blab and derive something false out of that. That's is ignorance at its purest shape.
* Okay, I need to amend my above statements; in general that is still rampant, and I perceive it won't go away, but...!
What I said is true, for about the first 10 years after Adele's first two albums, and cheap copying was everywhere, but now, after 11-12 years, the youngters who grew up on Adele are starting to make genuine music following her lead. So, though some if it isn't on the Adele level, they are earnestly making palatable music which I am proud (for Adele). It's almost incomprehensible the influence Adele brought to the planet Earth. That's my perception and I'm sticking to it.
But I hate the fakers. For years that went on. Ick, intolerable.

Superb mate. You really make me pick up the pen. Keep it up

Thank you for sharing the knowledge Tony :)

You have real good content Tony. Thanks.

This video is good advice in general, but you're going mostly for songwriting that will be easily accesible upon impact. Pop songwriting, if you will, and while there's nothing wrong with it, you're ruling out more obscure and poetic forms of songwriting as if they were merely attempts to sound clever. I agree, it's very easy to fall into pompous pretensiousness doing that, but some very brilliant lyrics have been written while exploring the realms of the psyche. I don't think Bob Dylan had a fully sketched out concept like Sting does when he was writing "Mr. Tambourine Man". Not every lyric is going to be absorbed and internalized at first listen, some songs hook you with intriguing language which makes you listen again, look up the lyrics, free associate in your mind, become engaged in the creative proccess of the artist. Some songs are not finished until a listener completes them in their head. Again, nothing wrong with trying to be economical with your writing or having a defined idea about what the song will convey, but without puzzling, complex lyrics we wouldn't have "Desolation Row", and that would be a damn shame. Overall, I think the best piece of advice is the last one: write, write, write.

Edit: I wrote this rant because I found the video to be very interesting and, as a songwriter, I wanted to share my opinion on the matter, I was not trying to be dismissive at all.

GREAT information, as always - thanks!

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Thank you brother!

This is so helpful. Thank you so much ❤️