Hello

[kevin christensen]

Novice song writer here.  Hoping to gain insight on how to make my lyrics more descriptive and increase my use of metaphors and similes.

[jhanover]

Welcome. A method for me is to write the theme using other forms of poetry. Adhering to strict rules of any poetic form to build a rhyme scheme, the pacing, or in some cases editing. Pantoum, Sonnet, Villanelle are some of the forms that have repeated lines which is good for hooks, and Haiku for editing purposes in saying more using less. Main thing is have fun, and use lyrics sites to see how professionals from every genre write songs.

[KenyonL]

using metaphors isn't as hard as it seems, but sometimes it is. Just saying what you want to say but disguising it and putting it off on other people and things. It's funny, I tried to show an example of how easy it is but he example was horrible.

 

Take a song with a lot of metaphors. i think hotel california has a few...and try replacing the metaphors you see with what they may be disguising.

 

Another excercize is taking a brilliant song and replacing all the great words with bland words. It helps you see from the inside out in a way.

[CorkingCrackBand]

Hi and Welcome @kevin christensen

 

  Sounds to me like heading over to the lyrics section may be a good idea. Lots of word talk in there. 🙂

 

Hope to see you around.

 

CCB

[jhanover]

There are two schools on that the good school where you use your brain, and the other is Madonna. You can imply and be subtle, or you can act like everyone is 3 years old. Look at the Art Movements, they had their literary counterpart as well.

[john]

Hi and welcome to Songstuff Kevin! Dive in.

 

 

[Thomas H]

Welcome!