They want to hear words that they’d expect to hear in casual conversation.Getting lyrics properly organized means knowing what listeners are wanting when they pay attention to your words. I can feel the paradise before my world implodesĪnd tonight had something wonderful… Organizing Lyrics There’s a bit of that, but you can tell that it’s mainly commentary:Įvery time you come around, you know I can’t say noĮvery time the sun goes down, I let you take control I walked out this morning and I wrote down this songĪs you can see, it focuses a little on a sequence of events ( yesterday mornin’, they let me know you were gone… I walked out this morning and…), but it reads more like a commentary on a situation.Įven in a song from today, like Ed Sheeran’s “Bad Habits” (Ed Sheeran, Fred Gibson, Johnny McDaid), it’s not really a sequential story. Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you Just yesterday mornin’, they let me know you were gone If you look at a classic tune like James Taylor’s “Fire and Rain”, you’ll see what I mean: It’s probably fair to say that the majority of song lyrics simply comment on a state of mind, and this is true regardless of genre or era. If you were to really analyze the telling of the story, you’d see that you start by telling your friend a few things that have been happening, and then work in moments where you tell them how you feel, or at least felt at the time. You tell an interesting story to your friend.This topic and the comments you make aren’t exactly a story, but it has (or should have) a powerful sense of relevance to you both. You and your friend make comments about something that interests you both.
There are lots of ways to have a conversation, but most of them can be reduced to one of two ways: