Writing Better Lyrics

The Must-Have Guide for Songwriters

Writing Better Lyrics has been a staple for songwriters for nearly two decades. Now this revised and updated 2nd Edition provides effective tools for everything from generating ideas, to understanding the form and function of a song, to fine-tuning lyrics.

Perfect for new and experienced songwriters alike, this time-tested classic covers the basics in addition to more advanced techniques.Songwriters will discover:

   • How to use sense-bound imagery to enhance a song's emotional impact on listeners
   • Techniques for avoiding clichés and creating imaginative metaphors and similes
   • Ways to use repetition as an asset
   • How to successfully manipulate meter
   • Instruction for matching lyrics with music
   • Ways to build on ideas and generate effective titles
   • Advice for working with a co-writer
   • And much more


Featuring updated and expanded chapters, 50 fun songwriting exercises, and examples from more than 20 chart-toppings songs, Writing Better Lyrics gives you all of the professional and creative insight you need to write powerful lyrics and put your songs in the spotlight where they belong.

• Songwriting: Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure: Tools and Techniques for Writing Better Lyrics (Songwriting Guides)
• The Complete Rhyming Dictionary: Including The Poet's Craft Book
• Songwriting Without Boundaries: Lyric Writing Exercises for Finding Your Voice
• Pat Pattison's Songwriting: Essential Guide to Rhyming: A Step-by-Step Guide to Better Rhyming for Poets and Lyricists
• The Song In My Head: Songwriter Journal
• The 30-Day Lyric Writing Challenge: Transform Your Lyric Writing Skills in Only 30 Days (The Song Foundry 30-Day Challenges)
• Songwriters On Songwriting: Revised And Expanded
• The Songwriter's Workshop: Harmony
• Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting: 126 Proven Techniques for Writing Songs That Sell
• Essential Songwriter's Rhyming Dictionary: Pocket Size Book