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@spiralganglion@merveilles.town c • My favourite lyricist is still Spencer Krug (saying "still" because this was already true 10 years ago). He writes songs that feel both abstract and very specific, and he turns all stories into epics. No idea how he does it. At the moment I'm also big into Hozier, Rosie Tucker, and The Beths, when it comes to inspiration for songwriting. b • I love good lyrics. The music is what invites me in, the lyrics are what makes me stay awhile. a • In terms of doing the writing myself, I've had better results recently with first writing (free-form) poems, and then adapting them into songs. I find writing a song from nothing to be excessively hard, and it tends to generate very formulaic songs. If I have a poem to start from, then I can use rhythm of the words as a basis for the melody, repeat important parts to create choruses, and so on. I might change much of the poem in the process, but that's fine. I got this way of working from an interview of Patrick Stump on Song Exploder, where he explained how Fall Out Boy wrote their early songs. Pete Wentz pulled scraps of lyrics and poems out of the ether and threw them into notebooks, and then later Patrick would shape these into songs. And if you need a tip for writing (bits of) poems, my usual technique is to visit this website: https://wordcounter.net/random-word-generator. I generate 2 words at random and use them as a basis or theme for a few lines. Rinse and repeat.