How to Write Rock Song Chorus Lyrics

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"In talking about the lyrical structure of the chorus. Once again, your lyrical structure needs to fit around the theme and the point that you're trying to make, and it needs to fit around your hook. Come up with your hook first, come up with the melody first, and then see what lyrical structure is going to fit best. For the sake of what we're doing I've chosen a song that uses a pretty basic poetic format, which is the A-B or C-B format, or A-A, B-B, or something like that where there's a pretty consistent rhyming pattern that will come back and that'll work very well. The lyrical structure, and poetic structure of our chorus, for this particular song that I'm using as example in how to write a rock song, is in fact an A-B, A-B format where the first and third line rhyme and the second and forth line rhyme. It is just a one 4 line stanza that makes up our chorus. Now, like I said, develop the theme and get the hook, get the melody. Get something that people are going to sing, people are going to raise their arms to, we want them to be raising their fists by the time they get to the chorus and just be totally ready to do anything and everything you ask them to do at that moment. That's the sign of a good rock song. So, lyrically, that's what you want to do. Lyrical in structure, that's what you really want to do."