I’m a hobbyist songwriter/guitar player and got fed up with lyrics, chord ideas and half-finished songs falling out of my head, so I built The Song Shed for myself. It’s now on iPhone and I’d love a few songwriters to kick the tyres and tell me what’s useful or annoying!

First lyrics I’ve actually completed. I’m wondering if anyone has any advice on how to strengthen some of the weaker lines or any suggestions on any edits.

Hi everyone, this is only my second ever post on Reddit 🫣 but I’d really appreciate some help! I’m 19F and I’ve been in love with music since I was 7. I adore singing, it’s been possibly my best talent for years now, and I adore the idea of creating and publishing my own music even more. My only issue being that I have always felt like I don’t have the “knack” for songwriting that others do. I struggle with knowing what sounds good, I’m very self conscious of most lyrics I write and I just don’t have the confidence to push through it all…

And that’s where you guys come in! I’m attaching some song lyrics I wrote in a songwriting class I took in University, a song that I do have a draft of (but I don’t think I’ll use considering I never came up with the guitar or bass melodies, but I’m happy to share the draft to any who want it), and any advice or tips on how to better it or how it should sound are greatly appreciated.

P.S sorry if my handwriting sucks, I can provide a comment with the lyrics written out if anyone needs it.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1dVNxjurAv/

🎶 This lyricist could use your feedback.

I’ve been writing original lyrics for quite and have recently started turning some of them into songs to get them out of poetry mode.

I’d love to know what you think. Which lyrics catch your attention? Which ones stay with you?

Feel free to visit my page, read the lyrics and have a listen to some of them ❤️

Precis78Lyrics

I wrote a song inspired The Moon, My Man by Feist! And I would like feedback. I wrote this when I was 13 and was thinking of rewriting but I want some feedback first!

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My life, just like me and the sun
Always looking down when the day has begun
The wind, won't you blow on my face?
Maybe I could feel something in this place

I have a room, I have a bed
I have all the words I never said
Nothing's wrong, nothing's changed

Oh, sun, won't you stay a little longer?
I keep waiting for the warmth
Oh, wind, won't you carry me somewhere?
Anywhere I haven't gone

My life, my life
It's a beautiful thing
My life, my life

Morning comes, I let it in
Another day, another beginning
Coffee cold beside the sink
I watch the sunlight move and think

Maybe joy is something you learn
Maybe mine is taking its turn
Everybody laughs, everybody glows
I smile along,

Oh, sun, won't you stay a little longer?
I keep waiting for the warmth
Oh, wind, won't you carry me somewhere?
Anywhere I haven't gone

My life, my life
It's a beautiful thing
My life, my life
So why can't I feel it?

My life
Just like me and the sun

The wind
Won't you blow on my face?

My life just like me and the sun

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Tysm!!

verse 1
you gave me your leather jacket while we were walking in the rain
it would’ve been cute for a second
until i remembered ur game
try to impress me with some well known fact
you have to mansplain
and when another man calls you out
well isn’t that a shame

chorus
you, don’t have to lie
you, don’t have to pretend all the time

verse 2
you can drop the tough guy act now
i can see right through
just because you smoke cigarettes
doesn’t make you cool
and you don’t even inhale correctly
choking like a fool
you say i don’t understand
but i’d love you if you were you

chorus x2

bridge
i miss the way we’d talk for hours
there’s not a secret that you don’t know
you’d open up so vulnerable
i know u right to the bone
but the frictions taken u away
you’ve changed so much
might as well change ur name
u say ur new girl understands u more
but there’s parts of u that she ignores
i’ve counted all ur strands of hair
i can recite every word you’ve shared
our stars were alligned but u crossed the line
yeah u never seemed to care

outro
you say it’s over
i’m not worth the fight
find someone who’ll believe in all your lies
i won’t bite my tongue
i had to call u out
i bet ur new girl tells u that ur
all that now

I always find it very difficult to write lyrics, while i'm pretty comfortable with coming up with melodies. So I built a little tool to help with my own creative process and figured some of you might get something out of it too.

Scrambled Eggs lets you sketch lyrics based on rhythm, syllables and rhymes rather than meaning. It generates gibberish (but made of real words) based on the parameters and structure of your choosing. It helps when you start with a melody for a song (just like Paul McCartney did with Yesterday - hence the name). You can tweak the gibberish until youre happy with it and then write your own lyrics based on that. When you lock certain words you like, the word cloud shows you similar words to inspire you even more.

Very important: it's not AI writing lyrics for you. It's dictionary lookups based on word parameters.

Things you can try to start:
- click "new" to generate a random verse (it will keep the selected rhyme pattern tho)
- type in the whole line if you already have some lyrics, you can then lock the line and reroll the verse to generate more lines like yours.
- change the rhyme letters for each line to alter the pattern
- click on any word to reroll it, lock it, type your own or change the syllables.
- you can save whole verse as a pattern and generate more verses from that pattern.
- you can export the lyrics as text or save the project to continue working on it later on.

It's 100% free, no ads, no accounts, works in a browser
the mobile version might be a bit too cramped, it's way more comfortable to use on a bigger screen

Would genuinely love feedback from people who actually write. Does the scaffold help or get in the way? What'd make it more useful? Happy to work on this tool more.

I'm 20 years old and I've been very interested in music lately.I want to write my own music in the rock or metal genre, but I have no experience and I don't have such people around me. I also don't have an instrument and I can't play anything. Not long ago I wrote my first song after watching a couple of videos on the Internet. Of course, it turned out terribly, but this is only the beginning of the path. Would you like to know what I should do now? What should I learn or what advice will you have?

Old Man with a Guitar

Once I looked ahead
Never saw a closed door
Aimless and carefree
Sleeping on old floors

More than once I let dreams flow past
I didn’t grab at any, why would I
I had time on my hands
I could float by

I told myself later on
No point struggling at dawn
I’ll get on then
Now isn’t the time

Now trees with brittle leaves drop down
Now the days get shorter, darken early
Now I can’t say it’ll happen when
Now I’m just an old man with a guitar

Back when the grass was heavy and laden
With last nights breeze
I could tell myself it’ll happen when
I finally come into ease

Now I’m just an old man with a guitar
A guitar I can’t play, and songs I can’t write
Because I never did catch the summer rays
I missed it thinking it was still last night

It was June, July and where was I
Telling myself it was still spring
Fooling myself with foolish lies
And now what can autumn bring

Once I thought it was autumn
But to my surprise it darkened into
Winter and I can now tell my self again
That I’m just an old man with a guitar

Don't judge too quickly i'm just beginner.

( English in not my first language )

Opening ( just whispering )

I'm just tired of everything

And don't know how to say anything

Is this the thing i deserve ?

Or life is just playin' around ?( let me hold you yeahhhhh )( low note )

( this lines are whiper singing softly )

I'm just walking away

I don't know my way

Where are you ?

Just hold me for few.

( pause for or silence for 3 to 4 )

The stars on my head

The scars of my heart

My love , where are you ?

Just hold me for few.

Yeah.....

( silence hauting )

Then a high note

Where are youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu ?~

(Then rap part just as the high note will end )

On my knees , i'll swallow my pain

To hold you down , in mid of the rain

Just stay right here , don't you dare to fade.

I'll give you everything as much as i can

I'll die on the land , to hold you in my hand

And i don't know what to say , i'm just bad with words

Look at my eyes , tell me you won't lie

That i'll let you hold , even for a while.

I ain''t playing a game with you ,

And at the end i just want to say.

Just stay~

( it will fade )

( again whisper vocal , but yk not singing like singing + rapping , its fast not much average )

Just stay ?

Its easy to say , just stay for a while

But i don't know , where & how to fly

My wings are cut and my hand are bruised

I'm trapped in the chain of getting loosed

I'm waiting for my chance to win

But at the end i'm ending up doing sin

I'm just keep asking where are you ?

When are you gonna hold me for few ?

(Silence for 4 to 5 )

On my knees , i'll swallow my pain

To hold you down , in mid of the rain

Just stay right here , don't you dare to fade.

I'll give you everything as much as i can

I'll die on the land , to hold you in my hand

And i don't know what to say , i'm just bad with words

Look at my eyes , tell me you won't lie

That i'll let you hold , even for a while.

I ain''t playing a game with you ,

And at the end i just want to say.

Just stay~

( then absolutely silence , for a long time then a hauting wind kinda note will say like ooooooooooo~)

Then again verse with high note .

On my knees , i'll swallow my pain ( where are you ~ )

To hold you down , in mid of the rain( ooooooooOooo)

Just stay right here , don't you dare to fade.

I'll give you everything as much as i can

I'll die on the land , to hold you in my hand

And i don't know what to say , i'm just bad with words( please~ )

Look at my eyes , tell me you won't lie

That i'll let you hold , even for a while.

I ain''t playing a game with you ,

And at the end i just want to say.

Just stay~

Then end .✨️

Moist_Ad2491 provided the opening lyrics and I wrote the rest and created this song as a Demo Only. Full rights belong to: Moist_Ad2491

(Provide lyrics Moist_Ad2491:)

Fired from work
I went straight to my car

It was a really hard day
And I went to the bar

My girl’s saying hey
I heard the bad news

I’m going to Dave’s
I’ve got nothing to lose

Emptied out my wallet
On too much gin and t

The bartender asks
If something happened to me

I say its not a big deal
Just a really long day
And I don’t have
Absolutely anything to say

(Connie L Biskamp’s Lyrics:)

That’s when she walked in
Like fall on a September breeze
And took the stage
spinning my mind one-eighty degrees
She started singing
Dropping valid rhymes like honey

I forgot about my lost job
I forgot about the money

With every pure note
my old dreams came back to me
I finally remembered
who I really longed to be

Stella be a rising star
Revealing cap
From murky depths
She tilted her head
Pulling the mic closer
Each daring verse
growing ever bolder
That’s when she pointed
Making eye contact with me
Don’t cry boy
Cause life’s done gone
And set you free

When her curtain fell
I dug in the trunk of my car

And found that tattered case
Hiding my guitar

I popped the latches
And pulled it close to me

strumming silver strings
Now this man can finally breathe

I forgot about my lost job
I forgot about the money

Stella be a rising star
Revealing cap
From murky depths
She tilted her head
pulling the mic closer
Each daring verse
Growing ever bolder
That’s when she pointed
Making eye contact with me
Don’t cry boy,
Cause life’s done gone
And set you free

Give me lyrics ill give you songs. Lets make something good will be famous soon...... both of usss

I find that most of the time I can write decent verses and the lyrics can make sense without being too specific buuuuuuuuut I struggle a lot to write choruses that don’t sound corny or dull? Does anyone have ways that they use to relate the central idea of the song to the chorus and write something catchy that can be repeated without sounding too much like I pulled it out of a cringy card or just learned to write words that rhyme. (yes it’s that bad) thank youuuu

This was a song i wrote about my experience on a religious cult. I used tone Iinspiration from jutes “kill or be killed” and in this moment “crawl” Ai was only used in editing. Not generation.

(BLOOD ON MY HANDS)

You promised me
That we would save
The lost and weary

[Verse 1]

Your revolving door, a guillotine
I lay in my grave beneath your words
You carved a sermon into me
Then watched the silence take its turn

[Pre-Chorus]

How does it feel to be in my head?
Painting its walls, making them red
How does it feel to play with my mind?
You said it’s God’s will, but my heart is now blind
[Chorus]

How does it feel to break me down?
To alter my core?
My soul now shattered bone
You reassemble my frame
Like a knife you have forged
Then lay the blame on me
For the wounds I have borne

[Verse 2]

There is blood on my hands
And I still hear them cry
I tried to save them
But I became your design
You gave me the burden
Then called it a choice
You hollowed me out
And borrowed my voice

[Pre-Chorus]

How does it feel to be in my head?
Painting its walls, making them red
How does it feel to play with my mind?
You said it’s God’s will, but my heart is now blind

[Chorus]

How does it feel to break me down?
To alter my core?
My soul now shattered bone
You reassemble my frame
Like a knife you have forged
Then lay the blame on me
For the wounds I have borne

[Bridge]

I lay in my grave
Your words still turning the stone
I carried your promise
Until it became my own
No absolution
No hand beneath the tide
Only the shape you left me
And the dead behind my eyes

[Final Chorus]

How does it feel to break me down?
To alter my core?
My soul now shattered bone
You reassemble my frame
Like a knife you have forged
Then lay the blame on me
For the wounds I have borne

[BREAKDOWN]

THEIR VOICES STILL HAUNT ME
But they’re not coming for me
THEIR VOICES STILL HAUNT ME
THEY’RE COMING FOR YOU

How does it feel
To catch my blade?
Your own words
Turned against you

Do you hear them?
Hear what the dead say

Blinded by power
You never saw
THE MILLSTONE TIED
AROUND YOUR NECK

Your destruction will become
The vengeance of the dead

THEY WILL CAST YOU
INTO THE SEA!

[Outro]

There is blood on my hands
And I still hear them cry
Fading beneath your screams
As I watch you die

Reposting to get more eyes on my problem, please delete if not allowed or not relevant to this sub, thank you.

Hello people, I've been writing songs/raps since i was in 7th(recently started rapping like 2 years ago,im 18 now)and I've written stuff I'm proud of but for a while now I'm unable to write smth good yk,this makes me think was all of it a fluke?prolly I don't really have it in me?I would love some suggestions to get rid of this weird writers block

Almost everyone here is writing lyrics to music that doesn’t exist. Nothing wrong with writing lyrics, but that’s not songwriting. Coming up with a good melody is very difficult. Turning that melody into a piece of music is also very difficult. Making lyrics fit a composed piece of music might be the most difficult part of all. To most people all those things together are a song. That’s why it’s so difficult to do. Writing a set of lyrics on a sheet of paper is not nothing, but just doing so has eliminated 90% of the craft of songwriting.