Pretty much every musician, at one time or another, has written a love song. But don’t write one just because it seems like a winning formula. If all your songs are written on the same subject, they’re more likely to sound the same.

Many of the best songs have clever lyrics with many different meanings, so it’s often hard to tell what the songs are really about. By allowing people to find their own interpretation, they’ll inject it with their own meaning and make it more personal to them.

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