Songstarter
A scene, a line, a collision of images. Random every click. Sit with it — or hit it again and see what comes next.
A scene, a line, a collision of images. Random every click. Something to start from.
How to use this
A blank page isn't really blank — it's crowded with all the songs you could write. What you usually need isn't inspiration, it's restriction. A specific image, narrow enough to step into.
Don't take the first one
The first line is almost never the one. Hit Another one three or four times. The one that lands tends to be the one you didn't expect.
Treat it as a room, not an instruction
The starter isn't what your song is about — it's where your song starts. Write into it. Leave it. Come back to it. The song might end up a mile away from the starter by the second verse. Good.
Let it be weird
Some of these are concrete scenes. Some are surreal images that won't immediately make sense. Both are useful. The mind, given a juxtaposition it didn't ask for, tends to do more interesting work than the mind told to "write about heartbreak."