Lesson 6 · Arlo
The Honest Line
There is a line in every song — sometimes buried, sometimes in plain sight — that is the reason the song exists. It is the honest line. The line the writer was trying to get to, whether they knew it or not. Every other line is scaffolding for this one.
The rest of this lesson
Arlo 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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