1. Write a song from Julio's perspective. (from Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard)

2. The edge of the wedge

3. You're waiting for a call that's going to change your life, but you don't know how…

4. Like the kitchen could clean itself

5. Prove or disprove a scientific theory

6. The end of cynicism

7. Your peripheral vision

8. Moving Parts- Write lyrics then pass to the 'right'. Write music to someone else's lyrics.

9. We were ghosts all along

10. No strings attached (write a song using no string instruments)

11. Everyday she sends a postcard

12. Write a Tom Petty song called Two Birds One Stone

13. Find a photo of yourself and write a song based on what you think/feel when you look at it

14. Needle's Eye

15. Living in a dry town

16. Phew!

17. Write about the relationship of two fictional characters from a book/movie/etc..

18. Write a fun song about something you love (that's not a person).

19. The bar is too high

20. Write a song about the life and/or death of Edna Forbes

21. Let Love In

22. X-Ray Records

23. the new normal

24. Deconstructed favorite song, and write a new song about Thanksgiving

25. Reflection/Reprise/Redo

26. Write a little song about something mundane

1. Found in translation

2. Conflict of interest

3. Using a children’s song or a traditional melody, write a song about heartbreak

4. Searching for the great white whale

5. The light knows where it’s going

6. Write a song about going up against insurmountable odds

7. Last words of a loved one

8. Anticipation

9. Get over yourself

10. Gut response

11. Write a follow-up to a character in a Bob Dylan song

12. Best mistake you ever made

13. Can’t say no

14. Surrender time

15. Write a theme song about a dog in your life

16. I never used to like the rain

17. Don’t make a molehill out of a mountain

18. Path of Totality

19. Turn the key, set them free

20. Underneath the Mask

21. Down for the count

22. Write a song about the story of the lady who escaped the train headed for the concentration camp

23. The city will never sleep again

24. 50 50

25. Duty Free

26. Regret

1. Last chance at a fresh start.

2. Never forget, this is undoubtedly the greatest time in human history to be alive

3. Me at 3am

4. Like a brick wall

5. The outcome is unknown - Swap beats, harmonies, melodies and lyrics

6. Breaking out of a rut

7. Everything is perfect

8. Write a Rolling Stones song with the word 'wheel' in the title

9. Put music to a viral video

10. Write a pop song

11. The myth and the marrow

12. Lose the crutches - Write a song without two devices you've come to rely on

13. Incorporating any part of a previous song, write a song about moving on

14. Change of Scene

15. Don't Look Away

16. You're writing a record of your life (either your whole life up to now or your life at the present). It's missing one final track to bring it all together. Write that song.

17. Grab your favorite book, collection of poems, favorite author, whatever. Randomly open it to a page. Those are your lyrics, put music to them.

18. Reimagine a well known cover: make a slow song upbeat, make a summer anthem into a minor blues, a thrash version of a lullaby, a disco version of a protest song...

19. Nina Simone

20. Underwater

21. Pick an era or a player from your favorite sports team and write a song about it/them

22. Write a song with no more than 22 words

23. Skeleton

24. Write a song about a conversation you overhear- real or imagined

25. Take a sad song and make it better

26. Take a glad song and make it bitter

1. Respect

2. Blind spot

3. The only constants in life are death and divorce

4. Re-Do

5. Leave your shoes at the door

6. Recall fondly one of the hardest things you've been through

7. Redo a song in the game, not your own

8. Write a song portrait of someone you admire greatly

9. Leaving your heart in paradise, knowing you'll never return

10. Kill for a cure

11. Write a song about the grandparent that you knew (and knew you) the least

12. Write a sexy, confident love song

13. {Lewis & Clark} The feeling of having your expectations wiped away by what's in front of you, but being too far in to turn back

14. The Leviathan

15. TFW your favorite song is playing. (Bonus points if you incorporate any part of the song)

16. Explore the dynamics of give and take in a song

17. A Perfect Place

18. Your best beginning

19. Find some old unfinished work and finish it. Or, write a song incorporating the theme Unfinished-Undefeated.

20. Write a song from the perspective of your opposite

21. Whole Cloth

22. The achievement of a monumental, albeit insignificant, task

23. Songwriting 101

24. In the box thinking: make a song using samples from other songs (not your own). The only recording you can do is voice(s).

25. Winter Storm

26. Pound of flesh

1. Live into it

2. Write a song that is hopeful and/or excited by the future. No more moping!

3. Tell a story with no narrative, only description

4. Identify one of your own ‘greatest struggles’. Identify a departed family member or loved one. Write a song about the advice they would give you regarding said struggle.

5. Grab A Hold Of What You Have, For We Have Such Little Time

6. Write a song about an off-beat character from your childhood, someone you knew personally or just were aware of that really flipped your young wig!

7. Write a song about girls

8. Write a song about a favorite room in your house/home. Or a house/home from your past. Or even a house/home of someone else's that you spent a lot of time in. Include at least one key modulation in your song.

9. _________&__________ : Write a song about two lovers who can not be together

10. Mirror Mirror

11. Maybe this is the last time (or write any kind of song about anything you want)

12. Higher Ground

13. Utilizing the oldest instrument in your possession (first guitar, family piano, 70s synth, etc...) write a song to sing to yourself at 15 years old

14. Write a song about a secret

15. Apophenia 

16. All good things...

17. Won’t Be Long  or  This House Is Built On _________

18. Write a song that begins at the end and ends at the beginning

19. Pencil vs Pen

20. An answer for everything

21. Your phone rings, and you see it's a call from yourself

22. SPACE (Can be outer space, personal space, open space, empty space... but also leave some space in the recording as well!)

23. Magical Thinking

24. Faith

25. A Month of Sundays or Divorcee (Bonus* If you incorporate both)

26. Finally, some good news!

1. Bourbon and Bitters

2. Write a sympathetic song about your arch-enemy (Bonus* if you make it a Latin pop song)

3. Super Moss 

4. Write a song about a situation in which somebody tries to solve a problem but ends up making everything a whole lot worse

5. https://www.facebook.com/817824382/videos/10158977135054383/

6. Acknowledge a past mistake

7. Write a dance song, incorporating a new dance move(Bonus Points- if you come up with an actual dance move to go with the song | Extra Bonus Points- if you make a TikTok doing the dance)

8. spooky, late-night, dark and stormy, atmospheric, lost and found

9. If I Were Truly On My Own

10. Making a mountain out of a molehill: Make the most from the least

11. Better Figure It Out Right Quick

12. Wabi Sabi

13. (No Prompt Given)

14. Give Or Take

15. Use the crutches : Incorporate and heavily utilize tricks that you often use in your songs and production.

16. Write a song about your next life

17. The thunder is done

18. Who? What? Where? When? Why?(pick three)

19. Love needs Love

20. Write a song about feeling good for no reason

21. Unreliable Narrator

22. Circle of fifths 

23. Write a sequel to any of your songs. *It doesn’t have to be a song, in the game*

24. The Good Stuff: No negativity, no sadness, not even bittersweet; write a song about beauty, wonder, peace, love, contentedness, inner-strength, self-mastery, entertainment, expertise, poetry, flowers, pleasure… you know, the good stuff!

25. (No prompt given)

26. Clean Slate

1. Using a different/alternate vocal character, write a song entitled The Ghost of 2021

2. The Perfect Moment

3. The Soundtrack of your Life

4. Write a story song based of a book you recently read

5. The salt brings out the sweetness

6. People are all the same

7. Write a song based on an episode of Seinfeld.*must incorporate the storyline from 1 specific episode*

8. There’s no such thing as a coincidence

9. The Multiverse

10. Do a funk song about being in over your head

11. Take a breather *Literally or figuratively*

12. The feeling of being a kid

13. Who Amongst Us Could Say? 

14. Mereology 

15. I can’t remember the sound of my own voice 

16. Getting High

17. Tell a story from your past. Bonus points if you have a person from the story, record on it.

18. Let's do an instrumental track!

19. Reimagine one of your songs.

20. The perfect crime

21. There's Always Room For Growth

22. I must be in heaven

23. Cover a friend’s song. Bonus points: if you make the song completely different

24. Least bad worst case scenario

25. Write a holiday song that goes into the difficulties of the holiday season. Bonus points: If you incorporate an instrument or vocal that is out of tune.

1. Drone on

2. Write a song based on an episode of the Twilight Zone *must incorporate the storyline from 1 specific episode*

3. Home in

4. Dress it up in a Monkey Suit (symbolize the emotions)

5. Master of Two Left Feet

6. You can’t connect with others, if you're not connected with yourself

7. The fog

8. The Way You Say Goodnight Is Like Poetry

9. Uncommon Combos (using ear-catching words in unusual pairings)

10. There are a thousand lifetimes in every minute

11. The age of bewilderment

12. Take a song of yours (preferably pre-game) and give it a 2023 update

13. Song is the awareness of time

14. 3rd Act Problems

15. You can always pick it up again (it gets lighter)

16. My Love For You Is Not Fake News

17. Dependent Co-arising

18. Do You Trust Reason Over Feelings?

19. 200 songs? 200 songs! "Keep on keeping on"

20. Where do you see yourself in ten years?

21. False starts and dead ends

22. Write a song from the perspective of a character in a horror movie. Note: Use one specific character from one movie, it's ok to use one that is in a franchise but focus on telling their story.

23. Kombucha Moonshine Apple Pie (write a song with nonsense lyrics)

24. The same things you love, are the same things that will kill you!

25. “In the land of Memory, the time is always Now” -Stephen King

26. Another year over, and a new one just begun!

1. Get specific: add some particulars, interesting details, and other distinct images

2. Heading back to… (any city or town*) *it can be a fictional town or city

3. Waking Up

4. Bury the lede

5. A song about a mythical creature

6. The paradox of choice

7. That one word ________

8. Spring is here!

9. "All My Old Haunts"

10. Graduation | Move In/Out

11. But what will people say?

12. Mystery

     Fantasy

         Prophecy

                   History

13. Last Good Weekend

14. Feature a place with a memorable/ironic/funny name

15. Object around the house

16. Songs I didn’t write

17. Write a driving song

18. I always wished I was bad

19. Write a song about something that terrified you as a kid, but looking back now it's funny how scared it made you ( Bonus Points if you make it a Halloween Song!)

20. We are just chemicals

21. The miraculous staircase of the Loretto chapel

22. The fork in the road of your life

23. a song about a hero

1. A gentle song of hopeful encouragement in dark times

2. Once the button is pressed, we don’t know what comes next

3. A Murder Ballad

4. In honor of Valentine’s Day and in opposition to murder ballads, let’s do a love song!

5. I guess it’s gonna be one of those nights

6. Delusions of grandeur are what carry you between moments of true inspiration

7. Practice, not perfection

8. You shouldn't compare yourself to others, but it's totally human to do so!

9. Make it beautiful by making it ugly

10. You can change the route, but not the destination

11. Write a song about a stranger that impacted your life in a profound way. To clarify they are still unknown to you

12. You need to practice breaking rules

13. Last day on Earth

14. Who tells you, you are beautiful?

15. A song about America

16. No wrong answers

17. loss leader

18. Hollow Surprise

19. headed to the next phase

20. Write a song about a place you’ve never been to

21. I keep a bag packed