How to write a song

Someone asked me how I write songs. I've wondered this same thing about other writers and I am going to open up a discussion about this subject. I think the issue here is the methods used to construct a work of verbal art that is 'sick', 'ill', 'dope', 'crack', 'fire' etc... This post can go one of two ways. You can get some vague unhelpful advice on songwriting, or you

can read on.........

Okay. First I'll share how I write a single stand-alone verse (written freestyle {lol}). Then I'll share how I write full length songs.

HOW I WRITE STAND-ALONE VERSES.

I just do. Let me explain. First I listen to the beat I'm writing to and take a max of 2 secs to evaluate the emotional direction I'll go in. Next, I'll activate a train of thought focused on the verse by thinking of previous lines I've written that go in the same (or a similar) emotional direction. Once a line or a full bar come to me, i write it down and that becomes the first line. Finally to top it all of, i just write whats in my head, which basically turns it into a freestyle I wrote down.

HOW I WRITE SONGS

Very similar process to how i write stand-alone verses. the difference being once i finish the first verse, I write the hook and tailor it to the first verse. Then I take a few minutes to decide what i want to do with the lyrics, the subject, the feeling i want to create, metaphors that i can't go without using, and the flow. For example, I'll decide i want to be simple, talk about world hunger, make people happy about it, make a metaphor about Sally Field, make the first line of a bar more syllables than the second line.

If anyone has a different way of making their art, let me know, I am very interested.