Songwriting: Chorus Lyrics

Video Transcript

"In this clip I'm going to talk about writing the words to your chorus. So, so far we have... Oh, it's New York in the winter. I'm not cold anymore. Now I just feel like starting with another though because I don't know it's kind of boring. Though it's years since that I have been here I know now what I'm looking for. Now we've got to, so it's New York in the winter, I'm not cold anymore, though it's years that I have been here I know now what I'm looking for. You got to keep it in the theme. It's about my dad not protecting me, about feeling cold and alone. So I've brainstormed some ideas. I don't need your cold protection. I don't need your worn out coat. So I'm coming back to the cold metaphor. I'm not running away to whole new... remember we have two things we're working with here. We're working with the weather and we're working with my father. So we got to keep working with both of them otherwise this song will kind of be a mess. So I don't need your worn out coat. I found a way to find my way and I won't give up this hope. So I found a rhyme in there. In terms of rhyming there's no rules about it, it's just whatever sounds right seems right. The only rules that if you find a rhyming scheme in the verse stick to that same rhyming scheme in the other verse but you know it could be A A B, A B or A B A B or whatever you want just make it work for yourself."