How To Write And Sell Your Songs With Pictures
Let’s examine the opening lines of two songs - first, Elliott Smith’s “Between the Bars” and, second, Kendrick Lamar’s “Swimming Pools (Drank)”. Both songs are about alcohol addiction. However, notice that they take two different approaches to the same topic, Smith opting for an indirect, referential approach and Lamar for a more direct one. Both successfully paint powerful emotional pictures. Between the Bars: Drink up, baby, stay up all night/With the things you could do, you won’t but you might/The potential you’ll be that you’ll never see/The promises you’ll only make Swimming Pools (Drank): Now I done grew up round some people living their life in bottles/Granddaddy had the golden flask backstroke every day in Chicago/Some people like the way it feels/Some people wanna kill their sorrows/Some people wanna fit in with the popular/That was my problem...