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Writing Deeper Songs

by Jimmh
(The Netherlands)

As I write songs, the meaning of it always fairly obvious what its about, but the songs I actually like to listen to are songs that have a somewhat deeper meaning and can be interpreted in more than one way.

How can I write such songs? I figure metaphors are the best way, but then the most original would be to make up some myself.. How can I do that?

The point is, I want to write more memorable songs. That means phrases people think: wow, that's original. Phrases that are quotable.

But how?

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Jan 30, 2008
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metaphors
by: Anonymous

Well I know what you're going through. I often have that same problem with songs i write but something that I've found works is listening to songs that have metaphors and picking up on what they mean.
Example
Shout at the devil
this song is not about telling off satan himself it's about standing up to authority and how authority will control everything if someone doesn't stop it.
Just try stuff like that it's worked for me

also you might try using a thesaurus
I had one song that i had trouble coming up with any metaphors for, and the ones that i did come up with sounded to cheesy. I went back to my original lyrics and found synonyms to make the song deeper and less cheesy.

any way as paul stanley of kiss once said,
"sometimes the more you embellish something the less powerful it becomes" this was when they did the mtv unplugged session but i feel that it could apply to lyrics as well.

Mar 05, 2008
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by: Anonymous

To make phrases more memorable, you can use dificult words, sentences that seem to be controdicting, etc.

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