Helping songwriters use storytelling to write great lyrics (and make a difference). The Story-First Songwriting Podcast helps you look BEYOND lyric structure and form AND focus on what's important: the CONTENT, the MESSAGE and the EXPERIENCE that your lyrics give your audience. We look at how to hook, move, and impact your audience. In this podcast, you get amazing tools on how to craft, write, and revise your lyrics without hitting writer's block ever again. Hit subscribe and get ready to get to another level! We also have a free community on Skool: skool.com/songwriting
Lyric Mastery - Storytelling in Songwriting
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Podcast Overview
Helping songwriters use storytelling to write great lyrics (and make a difference). The Story-First Songwriting Podcast helps you look BEYOND lyric structure and form AND focus on what's important: the CONTENT, the MESSAGE and the EXPERIENCE that your lyrics give your audience. We look at how to hook, move, and impact your audience. In this podcast, you get amazing tools on how to craft, write, and revise your lyrics without hitting writer's block ever again. Hit subscribe and get ready to get to another level! We also have a free community on Skool: skool.com/songwriting
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June 19, 2026
Disguising Horror as Love in Song Lyrics - Breaking Down the Song Lyrics of "Pumpkin Man" by Greg Amici
<p>Join our community: Story-First Songwriting on Skool. 👉 <a href="skool.com/songwriting">skool.com/songwriting</a></p><p>Interview with Greg Amici LIVE on June 30th! More details inside our community on Skool.</p><p>This is Story First Songwriting, and right now we're going through Greg Amici's album Tragicomic one track at a time. Greg told us that storytelling sits at the center of how he writes, so we're doing what we do best here: pulling apart the lyrics to find the story inside each song and the craft holding it up. All of it leads to my live conversation with Greg in our community on June 30, 2026, where we get him to walk us through how he actually does it. So let's get into today's song: track #1, Pumpkin Man.</p><p>Pumpkin Man sounds like a sweet reunion. A man gets back with a woman he loved and lost, and he can't stop celebrating. But there's a reason he keeps mentioning flies, and an electric halo, and how he's in "perfect health." He's standing over a body. He dug her up. </p><p>This is Day 1 of the Tragicomic series, a daily story-first breakdown of Greg Amici's album, one song at a time, building toward a live community interview with Greg on June 30, 2026. Each episode strips a track to its bones so you can see exactly how it was built and steal the moves for your own writing.</p><p>Today: the craft trick that hides a horror story inside a love song, the one case where vagueness actually works in your favor, and the refrain technique that carries a full emotional arc without changing a single word.</p><p><br></p><p>Join our community: Story-First Songwriting on Skool. 👉 <a href="skool.com/songwriting">skool.com/songwriting</a></p><p>Interview with Greg Amici LIVE on June 30th! More details inside our community on Skool.</p>
April 11, 2026
One Question to Beat Writer's Block
<p>Join our free community: Story-First Songwriters on Skool.And get the slides: 👉 <a href="skool.com/songwriting" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">skool.com/songwriting</a></p><p>And to work with me 1:1, book your call on my <a href="https://tinyurl.com/LyricMastery" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">calendar</a>.</p><p>There is only one question that can save you from getting stuck in your songwriting and falling into writer's block. And in this video, I'm gonna share this one question with you, the two possible answers, and how those two paths determine what you're gonna include in the verses and the chorus of your song.</p><p>Video mentioned:Writing an Empowering Chorus: <a href="https://youtu.be/aLtiMLRdHRA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://youtu.be/aLtiMLRdHRA</a></p>
March 31, 2026
Can AI replace the Human Songwriter? Lyric Breakdown of "Another Day Old" by AI Artist Eddie Dalton
<p>If you’re a songwriter, this breakdown of the song "Another Day Old" by AI artist Eddie Dalton will help you see the limits and opportunities of using AI as a co-writer for your songs.</p><p>Join our free community: Story-First Songwriters on Skool.And get the PDF of the lyric breakdown:👉 https://www.skool.com/storytelling-in-songwriting-3212 </p><p>And to work with me 1:1, book your call with me here:👉 https://calendar.app.google/XeBqfQcjazmaVNCL6 </p><p>We will also cover how storytelling inside lyrics can transform a good song into something people truly connect with. </p>Videos mentioned: Including the SETTING in your lyrics: https://youtu.be/jxini9o1bIM </p></p>The Concept of Re-Hooking: https://youtu.be/zOizYiUVz2c</p><p><br></p>
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