A lot of people mistakenly believe that they need to follow the strict rules when writing lyrics in songwriting… ya know: rhyming, rhythm/timing and all that stuff they teach you in the instructional books. Do you really need to follow that crap? In my opinion, no. In lyric writing, the only rule you need to follow is be yourself. You don’t need to be a fucking perfectionist in lyric writing, ya know? Just be yourself, that’s it. Write lyrics however you want to. In lyric writing, you don’t need to rhyme ’cause in case you haven’t noticed, songwriters don’t rhyme anymore. There’s plenty of bad lyric writers these days that write songs that don’t make any sense and in lyric writing, I’ve seen other lyrics in professional songs where the grammar isn’t that great as well.

You can write lyrics however you want. Just write what you feel inside. Whatever works good for the song is all that matters, ya know? That’s how I’ve always written lyrics. To be honest, I haven’t been writing lyrics for a long while but planning to get back into it. You don’t need to rhyme and you don’t need to be perfect. Just write whatever makes you happy. I always gave whatever the song needs and that’s how lyrics should be written. Don’t take yourself so serious and write from the heart.

If other people don’t like the way you write lyrics then fuck ’em. Technically, there are no rules in lyric writing just like there are no rules in poetry. Just write what you feel and that’s all there is to it. Speak your mind.

Kev