How do you guys write lyrics? I feel like i have nothing interesting to say about anything...

People don't write from experience, most songs follow a pattern.

these days i just sing and see what lyrics come out. but i have written at least a thousand "lyrics" most terrible as well as assorted poetry and short stories, and novel, and smol informative books [~30 pages each]

iow, for first projects just write what u can. It will be bad most likely. But even very popular things have bad lyrics, so mayb u can still become popular [if this is motivator 2 u].
And if other motivator is yours, then rest assured that u will improve, purely through confidence if nothing else, thru repetition.

This might sound really retarded, but I mumble gibberish until I've got a basic melody/rhythm down. If possible I try to get the whole structure for the verse down. I think it's important to get the verse first because that's where the story of the song is.

Then I fuck around with different sounds until a random sentence appears in my head that works with that melody/rhythm. If I like it, I keep it. If I don't, I keep trying, I go with basic instinct here I don't give a single shit about meaning.

As I keep doing this, I slowly start to realise that I'm talking about something here, and I try to vaguely flesh out whatever theme I've begun to establish.

My opinion is that you shouldn't be thinking too much about meaning with lyrics. For two reasons. One because that's an easy way to write shitty cringe lyrics, and two because I should realise what you were doing after you've done it. You should just let instinct and taste drive you when being creative. Focusing on meaning will not only force you to throw away lyric after lyric, it'll also mean that you won't be saying anything interesting. Your subconscious is way more interesting than you could ever hope to be on purpose.

That's how I do it anyway. I used to have your problem so it might be useful to you. Just remember that music is an aural art form. Not a literary one.

Nah, hold onto your ego. Don't follow the path of Love.

If you don't follow a structure you will be criticized, you have to learn poetry and songwriting techniques so you will get the hang of it. Most people don't write from experience.

Men should stop writing lyrics :/

that means you

lyrics are easy

I can't find a way to put this to music yet

Just do 5 minutes everyday

I’ve been alive for a while
Looking for a view
that’s worth the climb
a punishment that’s worth the crime/time

A tableau that’s at least as nice
as Belmonts
soarin/smoked/alit/ over the Burrard Bridge
Oblation of lungs
to fuel the fire inside

A sublimation of mastery of fire, agriculture, and industry
all in service of a life shortinin Byronic good time
With a heartful of love for a pair of Brown Eyes
Looking down over the edge at the water
watch the lamplight shine
in the ripples
listening to Grimes
on a Saturday night

When the earth was first meeting the sky
and the Red Morning Light
was all so new
I was taught and had faith
this place was yours and mine

At 27 many of my heroes are trainwrecked or have died,
or castrated, crouching in caves,
licking their wounds,
plotting the second acts of their lives

It's always amazing, how long it takes to see what’s in front of your eyes

That the only thing better than cigarettes is practice
Than Oblivion, restraint is all that’s more sublime
Better slightly than raging against the dying of the light
is knowing roughly when to be quiet

More ecstatic than visions
Is ancient, sacred (zenthuni) peace of mind

lol all the greatest poets were men.

Uncultured. There were many female sages that wrote vedic hymns, and those poems have had thousands of years of cultural impact.

lmao, get nu material