50 Theme Ideas for Your Songwriting
By Rebecca, Verse-Chorus
You want to write a song and you have lots of time but no ideas? Coming up with an idea for a song or lyric can prove more difficult than you think. We've compiled a list of ideas to get you started, broken down by subject area:
Love songs
- The joy of finding new love
- The pain of a recent break up
- The suffering of a relationship you can't get out of
- Jealousy over a former lover being with someone else
- Unrequited love for someone you can't have
- Interference from someone else into your relationship
- A description of your physical attraction to another
- Your dreams for the future of your relationship or future partner
- Your disgust at love and all that it represents
- Your hatred for other happy couples
- How you don't understand your partner
- Reminiscing over a former lover
- The love you have for your mother or father
- Your feelings towards someone who has lied to you
- Your plan to break up with someone
- The distance between you and a lover
- Telling someone you love them
- Your description of someone you admire
- The enjoyment you get talking to someone
- The monotony of your relationship
- Your apology to someone
- Your desperation for someone
- The virtues of the person you love
- How you'll always be there for someone
Your life
- Your love for a town, city or country
- Your love for a season or a country scene
- Your love for an animal/bird/natural object
- The wishes for your future
- The story of your life
- The lessons you have learnt
- Your admiration for a famous person
- A story about a person you once knew
- How a stranger has affected your life
- Your longing for freedom
- The story of your travels
- Your failures
- Your home
- A cry for help
- Your recovery from a setback
- Illusion and deception
- Your descent into despair
- Your hatred for someone
- Some advice you are able to give
Topical/political songs
- Your comments on the latest news
- Your protest about a current war or other negative event
- Your take on the nature of society
- How you don't understand why certain people have done certain things
- The different sides of an argument
- Your religious views or your love for god or other spirituality
- How history is repeating itself
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