A terrific title idea opens up a treasury of possibilities depending on the style, atmosphere and mood you want to develop. Years ago, the great Johnny Mercer, who wrote the lyrics to hundreds [...]

In kids’ music or comedy songs we can have a lot of fun with the sound of words. But here, more than ever, it’s important to write so that every syllable rolls out [...]

It must have been easier to write lyrics back in the old days. If you couldn’t rhyme a word easily, you could just switch the words around into a backward phrase and try [...]

How important to God is congregational worship? How important to God is music in this scene? How important to God are the worship-leading musicians? One might wonder after watching an unexpressive choir with [...]

Inner rhyme is rhyme within lines. It can be lots of fun, particularly in a novelty or tongue-in-cheek song, where the more frequent chimes add to the good humor. Here’s an example from [...]

A: Nothing. There is not a word in the English language that rhymes with orange, so don’t burn your brain trying to find it. We learned long ago not to end a line [...]