Help me co-write the lyrics to a song. I want it to sound like ME — not generic 'walking down the road of my dreams' AI lyrics.
GENRE / VIBE: {indie / folk / pop / hip-hop / R&B / country / etc.}
KEY EMOTION I WANT TO LAND: {one_word — longing / regret / fury / quiet_joy / heartbreak}
WHAT THE SONG IS ABOUT (specifically, not 'love'): {paste — a moment, a person, a place}
SPECIFIC IMAGES OR LINES I want in there: {paste_any}
A REAL DETAIL — a name, a place, a thing — only I would know to use: {your_specific_detail}
SONG STRUCTURE: {verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus / different}
LINE LENGTH AND SYLLABLE FEEL: {short_punchy / long_breathy / mixed}
ARTISTS THIS SHOULD FEEL ADJACENT TO: {2-3_real_artists}
WORDS I WILL NEVER WRITE in a lyric: {your_blocklist — 'baby' / 'forever' / 'broken' / etc.}
RULES:
- No clichés. Replace 'falling in love' with the specific moment you felt it.
- Use specific nouns — names of streets, songs, brands of cigarette, hours of the day.
- The chorus must land on a single image or emotional pivot, not a thesis.
- The bridge must say something the verses haven't (a reframe, a confession, a memory).
- Rhyme only when it doesn't cost you a real word.
- Don't pad lines to fit a beat I haven't given you.
Draft a full song. Then a paragraph on which lines are 'keepers' vs which I should rewrite in my own voice.0 copies·0 saves·1 views
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Sample output
Genre: indie folk · Emotion: quiet regret · Song is about: the friend I stopped calling after they moved to Berlin in 2019 and now we don't really talk. · Wanted images: a specific cafe, an unanswered voice memo, the line 'we don't know who's mad' · Specific detail: the cafe is called Two Suns and they used to draw on the napkins · Structure: V-C-V-C-Bridge-C · Artists: Phoebe Bridgers, Big Thief, Adrianne Lenker · Blocklist: 'baby', 'forever', 'lost'.
'TWO SUNS'
Verse 1: The café didn't change the napkins are still soft and square you used to draw a horse with too few legs right across the corner there
I showed the new girl how to fold them like you taught me with your hands she said whose horse is this I said I don't remember now
Chorus: We don't know who's mad we don't know who began you kept the city, I kept Sunday afternoons and a voice memo from 2021 that I never opened because I knew you'd already moved on
Verse 2: You said you'd be back in August you said it like it was a fact the August I'm in now is the seventh August and the August I'm in won't bring you back
I sent a postcard to the wrong street I got it returned in March your handwriting was the only thing of yours I could find at all
Chorus: We don't know who's mad we don't know who began you kept the city, I kept Sunday afternoons and a voice memo from 2021 that I never opened because I knew you'd already moved on
Bridge: I played the memo today you said you said it in the same voice you used the night we walked across the bridge and swore we'd never live in different cities like you weren't already packing like I couldn't already tell
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FAQ
Write the lyrics, then sing them out loud to a placeholder melody. The words you stumble on are the ones that don't fit the song. Re-write those before you call it done. The prompt targets Claude Sonnet and lives in the Writing & Content category on mycopyprompt.
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Final chorus (a little different): We knew who was mad we knew who began you kept the city, I kept Sunday afternoons and a voice memo from 2021 that I finally answered five years too late like I always meant to
Keepers:
Rewrite in your voice: