What's the biggest thing you keep in mind when writing lyrics? I'm talking things like keeping it simple...

What's the biggest thing you keep in mind when writing lyrics? I'm talking things like keeping it simple, leaving room for interpretation, stuff like that.
Also post stuff you've written if you're comfortable with that.

Anyone got any feedback for me?

Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang (Gucci gang)
Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang (Gucci gang)
Spend three racks on a new chain (yuh)
My bitch love do cocaine, ooh (ooh)
I fuck a bitch, I forgot her name (brr, yuh)
I can't buy a bitch no wedding ring (ooh)
Rather go and buy Balmains (brr)
Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang (Gucci gang)
Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang (Gucci gang)
Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang (Gucci gang)
Spend three racks on a new chain (huh?)
My bih love do cocaine, ooh (brr)
I fuck a bitch, I forgot her name, yuh (yuh, yuh)
I can't buy no bitch no wedding ring, ooh (nope)
Rather go and buy Balmains, ayy (brr)
Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang (Gucci gang)

I try not to write about myself because i'm too embarrassed, so I usually write more surreal sounding stuff with disconnected phrases about a certain subject.

Usually I think of some sort of melody and free verse something over it and either forget about what I said or write down the stuff that sounds cool. Then I forget about it. After a while, I'll return to it and come up with new lyrics and save the stuff I like most. Eventually I have enough stuff I like that I can make for complete lyrics. From that I trim it down to make it better.

Here's some lyrics I wrote.

Simple, little friend of mine
As we float throughout eternity
it reminds me
of my childhood fantasy

Always in this state of mind
As we billow
back and forth
between what we've seen
and what we're shown
we will never know

I could ever understand this feeling
of always being old
I could never understand the meaning
depsite always being told
because I have always been looking for something
something that I've never ever seen before
I would always be looking for something
something that I've never ever seen before
At least, not anymore

(pls don't judge too hard)

not writing about yourself is a good approach, I love surreal too
I don't know much about lyric writing (yet) but this seems alright, maybe a little unfocused?
was gonna tell you to suck my cock but this made me laugh, that being said suck my cock

honestly man you just gotta work to find your voice
don't try to sound like someone else, don't censor yourself based on how you think it'll be received

also, there's something to be said about prioritizing meaning or prioritizing the actual sounds of the word, try to understand how to use both

mostly just write a ton and try to stay loose

I would write
If I could stop
Imagining her name
in my handwriting

something i wrote today, still need a title and another bridge but yknow


what an ugly day you say, you're hiding on the inside
nighttime coming grey, we're gonna curl by the fire
what an ugly way to say you're hurting on the inside
but insides are okay so come and curl by the fire

lights on, you better come home
the lights on, it's open
lights on, you better just go
the lights on, it's open

all I see's really all I see
as I watch them run, the running team
pretty thing, or it seems to be
as I watch them run away from me

Thanks for the lyrics senpai. You've been bambozzled

I'm a 6'2", white guy with above average intelligence that wears a sweater everywhere and reads medical science textbooks for fun, so when I write lyrics it is mainly about the ineffable cosmic uncertainties of the universe that plague every educated mind and my day to day experiences in which I find I tend to make people feel very uncomfortable, perhaps as they understand how little they have achieved in life when standing next to me. Just be yourself.

this is good bait desu

sounds like soy boy nihilism/narcissism

Generally i just have to be in the right mindset and let my mind go. Having a melody isnt necessary but helps, having a topic or feeling helps too
Ex.
I walked down the street
To where we used to meet
And who answered the door
A face I hadn't seen before
Cruel and looking mean
They doused you in gasoline
And threw you in their hearse
You're dead at sixteen
And who watches over me
And when he calls my name
Will if fall to flames
After all i seen

Are they taking you away
Because I forgot to pray
And even if nothing's true
I still won't be seeing you
And who watches over me
And when he calls my name
Will I fall to flames
After all I seen

And are you singing with the choir
Or screaming in the fire

Perhaps, if one fails to understand the distinctions between the nihilistic and the scientific. I find the poetry in the books of Alexander Markovich Polyakov and Robbert Dijkgraaf
to far outshine the supposedly "lyrical" aphorisms of such philosophers as Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, whose find I find childish and asinine. One cannot fathom the depths of any so-called "existentialism" without first having a solid grasp on what existence truly is, but I doubt you even understand what I mean by that.

i usually just freeform write without judgement of myself and eventually im able to interpret some parts of writing a certain way, so ill edit all the writings to fit that same idea.

If u have to think so hardly about lyrics you're doing it wrong. Lyrics should come mostly naturally with some minor tweaks.

that barking before a breakdown is not only acceptable but appropriate

What a stupid thing to say

Here's an excerpt of one of my acoustic songs:
Lately I've been patient
walk slowly, watch the pavement
Lately I've been hurried
walk the branch and, back up slowly

and I don't need that
anyway
and I wont flee back
stow away

with your blues in the house, in your house lies
what does it even matter here
you got your face in the clouds and your ass down
what does it even matter here

(it just comes to you while you play your instrument. Mine are weird but that's the style that I want. It's a mix of improv and your feelings.)

super adolescent

what gives you that? If anything these words are random. Is it the random aspect? if so then I guess you're right..?

don't mean to sound too harsh they aren't really bad or anything, it's just quite vague but still has an undeniable underlying angst to it which always seems adolescent

understandable
part of improv is letting out your intuition and I used to be a really edgy a sad person so that could be
what comes through

don't say too much. but don't say too little.
but also don't say less than not enough.

I've found that trying to start with a concept (like wanting to write a song about love or a song about politics) is much more difficult than trying to start with a phrase or words you think have a nice ring to them.

Also, it's pretty much the most counter-intuitive advice I can give, but don't question your own ideas, at least until after they've been fleshed out. Give every song a chance to be good. If you start writing a song, and halfway through you think, "nah, this isn't working, this is dumb", KEEP WRITING IT ANYWAY. Finish it, figure out why it doesn't work, and fix it instead of just starting again from scratch.

Tried to keep it simple and grounded

I love to be greeted by cold breezes in the early morning for one reason
warm socks and hot coffee, they're all I needed
if I shiver due to winter season then so be it
tightly wrapped in a blanket as I stay seated
making sure my body stays well heated, I'm finally cozy
think of days ahead and what have passed, the ones that know me
embrace the hour gazing at a view from a window frosted mostly
not many days like this for me to use, to listen closely
the things I choose to do today, may seem awful lonely
the things I choose today is what makes all this home to me