Metaphor Collision
From the
How to Write Songs video
5 Ways to Make Your Lyrics Not Sound Terrible
Spend 2 or 3 minutes with each emotion / noun pair.
Write a few sentences that explains and describes the metaphor.
Examples from Keppie
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Fury is a noodle. My rage gets tangled, knotted, and caught up in the spaghetti sauce of ignorance and misunderstanding.
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Melancholy is a back. You never see it directly, though you carry it around on the skeleton of disappointment. And when sadness aches, it debilitates all other capacities.
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Remorse is a whale. Trapped in a net of nostalgia. Regret is the song it sings. Drowned out in the sea of possibilities missed, lost, or forgotten.
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