Music can transmit a lot of feelings. Music can make you feel better. Music can make you feel worse. Music can make you feel melancholy. Music can do a lot of things. Music can even manipulate you.

Writing songs is not as easy as it seems. It requires a lot of inspiration, creativity, and most of the time, poetic languague.

A song is not just made by stanzas that contain end-rhymes, alliteration, assonance, consonance, etcetera. It should have some kind of meaning in it. It could be a story, a declaration… or anything relevant to the writer and/or audience.

Some people begin with the lyrics and then move on to the music. Some people do it the other way round. I find it easier to begin with the tune. Once you’ve got it, you can start writing the lyrics, and if needed, adjustments can be made to the track.

Writing songs is not easy, it requires a lot of skill. Having a vast vocabulary can help out incredibly. Diction is really important, and if you’ve got a wide selection of words from where to choose, the final result can be much better.

But a song is not all about nice-sounding words, the music is also important. Catchy tunes are really effective with the general public.

Actually, both the music and the lyrics should be good. There needs to be some kind of balance. I am not saying that the music should be exactly as good as the lyrics, because one can be better than the other and keep the track in a great condition.