Can someone give me some good song ideas?

Lyrics are poetry, write poetry & journals and sing them with some music you create. Some like the lyrics first, some like the music first. Personally I'd like the music first then I'd add the poetry. Depends also if this is strictly your music or if it's a collaboration.

You could write a song about our crazy president

There are many things you could write about! You can do it on your emotions...

1. If you are angry, write a rap/soul/pop/heavy metal song about it.

2. If you are happy, write a pop song about what things make you happy or if you are meeting someone you haven't met in years.

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But, the real idea lies within you... You can write about opportunities or a motivational song. You could write about some horror stuff. (mumble raps are pretty popular nowadays)

But hey! Not able to find something? Look out of the window, find and write some witty lyrics how nature disses us every single day... Good luck

Study music theory. Study other people's songs and see what is written in them. Get really familiar with music first hand.

Then once you know some songwriting basics, pick up your violin or guitar or piano or whatever, and start playing. Just free write. Play around with chords, scales, different notes. Eventually an idea will probably come with some patience.

"The Man Without Words" by Wilson

My mind is blank it has no words

So I stare to the sky and look at the birds

As they write out words in the sky

They have the words but not I

I want to be hip I want to be cool

But I never went to songwriting school

Even though I'm on the info superhighway

I'll never use it to get to Broadway

Chorus:

Oh I'm the man, the man without words

All of my thoughts are brown stinky turds

My creativity is always at nil

Cuz I haven't got one single skill

I could read a book and learn to rhyme

Or I could go to youtube and spend some time

Learning this uncommon songwriting craft

But I'd rather sit here and be daft

No inspiring moments, no visits by muse

To get something done, others I'll use

All of my days begging for help

And in the end, complaining on yelp

"No Good Song Ideas"

I could write about the weather

I could write some to feel better

I could write about what's new

or dedicate a song to you

I could write some bitter lines

or something sweet to past the time

I could write about whats fine

but nothing comes to mind

No good song ideas

Nothing to write about

I wish something comes to mind

so I won't let my time go by

My mind is full blocked

Like having a head stroke

I wish I could just grab the pen

and let my mind flow until ten

I asked some people for help

but didn't came out that well

I've been woke up until two

trying to find some words for you

No good song ideas

Nothing to write about

I wish something comes to mind

so I won't let my time go by

No good song ideas

Nothing to write about

I wish something comes to mind

so I won't let my time go by

How to Build a Song/Write a Lyrics Poem From Scratch

1. What to write about

Think of something or someone that inspires you

Something or someone that bothers you

Something or someone that changed your life

A person you admire

A childhood or travel memory

A small incident in a moment that reversed itself in your life

Any subject it seems no one talks about

2. How to write it

Pick a melody in your head or a catch phrase that you like and just flesh it out.

You can change any song idea after getting stuck for some other new angle or different idea. Don't stay stuck long. Use your journal. Catch ideas that don't yet fit for later.

Use a rhyming dictionary, thesarus (directory of concepts!) or some creativity exercise.

Oh yeah....keep doing it. Someone once said "there's no such thing as a genius, just someone who practiced 100,000 times".

3. Format for familiarity

People often write lyrics as poetry, but fight the usual rhyming and formatting most

popular songs use. It's your choice, but it also depends heavily on whether your target

audience is going to "get" your work if you get away from a standard AABA format with

a solid chorus and hook, or whether the object is to try new creative or innovative ideas.

In the end, you decide how and what to tell the world. Personally, I believe in choruses,

familiar rock/country/blues formats and whatever gets your audience to sing along.

Usually, less is more and repeating a key line once or twice makes a point stand out.

4. Standing on the shoulders of giants

Someone somewhere blew you away with a song or two. What was it about

that song that you liked? Would you like to try and make a song that

blows people away like that too?

Emulate your idols without copying, or be inspired by a song you just

heard on the radio.

Believe in what you're doing. The only thing the greats (Dylan, Lennon,

etc.) had in common was the belief that they could change the world by

doing what they did. They were right.

5. Exhibit A

Secondhand Romantics

It’s not gonna be the first time for you

It’s not my first time, either

It’ll take more than strong wine for you

To ever make you a believer

The odds get smaller of ever finding someone

The second-or-more time around

That doesn’t mean you’re never finding someone

Or you’ll lead the league in rebounds

You know you can do it..love will take you through it

Take a couple strikes and you can still hit that long one

Buy a few tickets that don’t win the prize

To find one that’s right means trying on some wrong ones

When love gets to you it will be a surprise....surpr-i-ise

No need to panic, all you....secondhand romantics

You should have seen the one that would have had me drown

Almost let go of the rope

And you’re still around after another letdown

So don’t you ever lose hope

You know you can do it..love will take you through it

Take a couple strikes and you can still hit that long one

Buy a few tickets that don’t win the prize

To find one that’s right means trying on some wrong ones

When love gets to you it will be a surprise....surpr-i-ise

Don’t feel so frantic, all you....secondhand romantics

INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE

Take a couple strikes and you can still hit that long one

Buy a few tickets that don’t win the prize

To find one that’s right means trying on some wrong ones

When love gets to you it will be a surprise....surpr-i-ise.... surpr-i-ise....surpr-i-ise

(ah, ah, ah)

Love’s still volcanic, all you....secondhand romantics (ah, ah, ah)

Love’s still gigantic, all you....secondhand romantics, yeah (ah, ah, ah)

Love’s still organic, all you....secondhand romantics, yeah (ah, ah, ah)

(ad lib to fade)

Come on now, drop the semantics

You are your own heart mechanics

This band’s a bunch of pedantics

Secondhand romantics....

LAUGHING DOLPHIN MUSIC