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Type in detail what your song is about
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Genre — what should this song sound like?
Classic Country
Waylon, Cash, Hank Williams. Stories told plain, with weight.
New Country
Luke Bryan, Sam Hunt, Kane Brown. Country bones, pop polish, radio hooks.
Soft Rock
Bryan Adams, Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel. Polished feeling, melody first.
Classic Rock
Stones, Beatles, Petty, Skynyrd, AC/DC, Zeppelin. Big imagery, guitar muscle, hooks that swing.
Alt Rock
Radiohead, Nirvana, The National. Oblique, atmospheric, dynamic.
Folk
Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Simon & Garfunkel. Stories with breath, voice forward.
Blues
B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Etta James. Twelve bars, three lines, one ache.
Pop
Taylor, Billie, Olivia. Modern, immediate, hook-obsessed.
Rap
Tupac, NWA, Kendrick, Drake, Megan. Persona, density, multisyllabic rhyme.
Emotions — pick as many as fit
Setting — where does this song live?
Images
Lyric style
Sparse & raw
Short lines. Plain words. Nothing wasted. The kind of lyric where silence does as much work as the words. Like late Johnny Cash, Townes Van Zandt, Leonard Cohen.
Poetic & dense
Rich imagery, layered meaning, words that reward re-reading. Bigger vocabulary, more metaphor, more risk. Like Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen.
Conversational
Sounds like someone talking to you, not performing. First-person, direct, no fancy language. Easy to sing because it's how people actually speak. Like John Prine, James Taylor, Olivia Rodrigo.
Storytelling
A scene that unfolds — a character, a place, something happening. Verses move the story forward; the chorus is the emotional verdict. Like Bruce Springsteen, Tom T. Hall, Harry Chapin.
Rhyme pattern
Free verse
No rhyme pattern. Let the words flow naturally.
Couplets (AABB)
Paired lines rhyme. 1 with 2, then 3 with 4.
Alternating (ABAB)
Every other line rhymes. 1 with 3, 2 with 4.
Folk pattern (ABCB)
Only the 2nd and 4th lines rhyme. Common in folk and country.
Internal rhymes
Rhymes happen inside lines, not just at the end. Clever and dense.
Chord feel — optional starting point for the verses
Upbeat & hopeful
C — G — Am — F
Bright and open. Familiar warmth. Feels like possibility cracking through.
Dark & heavy
Dm — Am — Bb — F
Weight without collapse. Sits in the dark comfortably.
Heart and Soul
C — Am — F — G
The progression behind a thousand pop classics. Playful, nostalgic, hard not to hum along.
Tense & edgy
Em — D — C — B7
Never fully resolves. Perfect for anger or conflict that has no answer.
Dreamy & floating
Cmaj7 — Am7 — Fmaj7 — G
Soft edges. Like a memory you can't quite hold onto.
Warm & grounded
G — D — Em — C
Steady and honest. Sounds like something real happened here.
Broken
Am — C — F — E
That E major surprise stings right when you don't expect it.
Open road
E — A — D — A
Forward momentum. Windows down, headed somewhere.
Quiet hope
F — C — Dm — Am
Sadness softening into peace. Tender and still.
Big anthem
D — G — A — D
The "made it through" sound. Big and open.
Lonely & folk
Em — Am — D — G
Late-night campfire feeling. Wistful and worn-in.
Tender & intimate
D — A — Bm — G
A love song that means it. Warm without being sweet.
Blues with swagger
A7 — D7 — A7 — E7
Dominant sevenths that swing. Front porch, hard times, and a smile through it all.
Old-soul slow dance
C — Am — Dm — G
Doo-wop and high school dances. Classic, romantic, never not in style.
Mysterious & cinematic
Am — F — Em — Dm
A descending walk into something darker. Slow burn, suspense, things not said.
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