Lesson 6 · Jules

Images That Breathe

An image in a lyric should breathe. It should expand and contract in the listener's mind. It should have room around it — room for the listener to bring their own memories, their own associations, their own version of the image.

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Jules takes this apart properly inside Songmatter — the rest of the lesson, the exercise that goes with it, and a critic who reads what you write back.

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