The Secret To Writing Lyrics

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1. I always thought about the sounds the words created

2. "You do not have enough hatred sasuke, you cannot write lyrics, come to me with songs like mine"

3. a fellow left hander i see

4. remember, it's never just about lyrics, but also about how they go with the music. You can change the lyrics to fit the music better, or you can be creative with the way you sing them so that they fit the music better. But it's still practice that is most important.

5. If you ask me, it's better to write a song that has horrible lyrics but sounds really good rather than the other way around.

6. I write lyrics as a hobby.
   My first few songs were just ripoffs of other songs but gradually I found my own

7. I have a hard time articulating my feelings with words.

8. Just close out the last line with a drawn out “toniiiight”

9. Pls suggest some lyrics on love.

10. personally just start writing stuff down all the time. Doesnt matter what it is just write and your brain likes it when things rhyme and go together it will begin to do it naturally. Ofc go back revise and look at it more but the key is to pick up the dang pen and get to it

11. I was analyzing this song-writer John Darnielle who has this band The Mountain Goats. He does this thing with lyrics where he there is this defiance, and this emotional punch. It has to do with how he writes lyrics and sets them to harmonies (and melodies). It is hard to come up with a simple word for what it is.

12. I like writing lyrics without rhyming but giving them rhythm by flowing and most of the time they come out well

13. Yo I really like this vid I learners heaps man I'm a new subscriber but I'll be looking out for more vids like this in the future good job bro ?

14. I run into the issue of continuing to write knowing full well that a song typically becomes too personal when it’s overloaded with every little detail about that thing i began writing about. Simplifying and breaking it down to one main emotion or situation to talk about is where i really start to crumble. It’s fine in poetry, but it creates songs that are so personal to the writer that it excludes anyone listening. Anyone scouring the comments, am i making sense and do you have any advice?

15. This was very informal and educational I also am a poet ??

16. Let your mouth do the thinking not the brain. The brain tends to overthink so I’ve heard ???

17. Lyrics don't even have to semi rhyme, look at metal, story is more important then the song rhyming. Though rhymes are still important.

18. The way i write lyrics is by making an instrumental to sing along to, then taking my phone using the video camera and recording my self singing over and over improvising lyrics to the melody of the vocals that ive already pre-decided fits to the instrumental. Then i go back and find the stuff i tend to have said during each go through and find a thematical idea that i am subconsciously injecting into the song, then i flesh that idea out

19. just put ur feelings out there

20. Or check out anything from MF DOOM or Aesop Rock for super good of examples from hip hop

21. I hate poetry ?

22. just noticed he drew all that with his left hand !

23. its a little tough for me to appreciate the watsky reference as a nice example of polysyllabic internal rhyme scheming when you had a phenomenally glorious tapestry of black artists in a mostly black genre that have both preceded and often greatly surpassed his undoubtedly solid technique at laying consistently structured internal rhymes. the choice to highlight him, given the aforementioned demographic context in terms of talent and precedence, seems like it was because he's white. That's fine, but wrestling with the "i chose one marginally above average emcee in a mostly black artist genre and he's neither the best at it nor the first to do it" might be interesting to better understand with regard to owning which pieces of music we are more inclined to both sponsor and appreciate, especially with a large audience.

24. Looking at that knot drawing on the thumbnail photo for this video gives me a headache.

25. My best advice is to go back to a previous line and correct it to make it work with the next one

26. Man, What r u talking about????? SHIT<

27. or grow up in a gang

28. I have an idea.
    Lyrics as a limerick.
    Wait, that's a haiku.

29. Mumble rap: im gonna pretend i didnt see that

30. Sorry, but you must credit Jerry Leiber for the lyrics of 'stand by me', not Ben E King.

31. I just write what I feel and what my ppl felt n I know other ppl go thru and just make it sound good

32. Easy way to write lyrics… Smoke weed ?

33. Marty robbins has the best lyrics in my opinion

34. Can you make a video on death grips music

    Now that would be cool

35. i have learned more from this than from any school lesson

36. I’ve written hundreds of songs. My advice is don’t be afraid to write bad songs. Seriously you have to write bad songs to get good ones. And it’s a never ending cycle. You’ll have boughs of writing one great song after the next then you’ll write some songs that aren’t great, that’s okay. Just don’t be afraid to make songs that suck, because that’s the only way to get the good songs unstuck.

37. As a rapper try to listen to the beat, and what comes to mind first use it. If you need it to rhyme use rhyme zone, take your time ignore everyone else and everything else you’ll be fine.

38. Nah…nah this is creepy IM LITERALLY WRITING LYRICS AND OPEN YOUTUBE AND THIS IS THE FIRST THING THAT POPS ON??????

39. The first coupe of bars are the toughest. But if they're fire, it really sets the tone for everything else after. I have so many partially writtens, it fills a bag.

40. 4:45 Heal the pain by George Michael? Opinions?

41. First time on your channel and this was fascinating to watch your flow and script line up with the images.. I can't even lie at first I wasn't sure what was going on until I started really paying attention. I think it's worth mentioning that this exercise alone of drawing images to match your vocabulary is probably an incredible exercise in improving associative lines and metaphors.. sometimes it's hard to think of a good tie-in to a concept. Breaking down the psychology is one thing, but clever expression and imagery is half of the creative journey. It's a prime way to exemplify "what do you think of when I say this".

42. Lyrics are definitely super important but I find that melodies are even more so. That's why I started my youtube channel to share the songwriting process and create melodies to write lyrics to. Lyrics tend to come afterward more often than not.

43. Did you doodle so we can get ideas for words because those objects can give our minds multiple meaning or it reminds us of different objects/words?

44. When sarah gave birth and introduced me to Earth, I was wearing a che guevara shirt and spittin dirt at the nurse, the doctors swarmed the new born and could have sworn i had two horns and was chewing sweet corn.

45. Lyrics are simple needs a beginning middle and end

46. the drawing is amazing

47. Dude you speak soooo fast??????
    But thanks for the video ?

48. Me: ryhmes sad with bad
    im a god among men

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