Thinking about doing some posts about songwriting here. As a teenager, studying songwriting seemed wrong or maybe corny. Still haven't read any books about how to write songs. Are there any you recommend?

Some of the aspects I think of are:

 - subject matter
 - narrator, point of view
 - list songs
 - simplicity
 - difficulty of performing
 - are there lyrics?
 - variations (verse, reverse, subverse, inverse, perverse, converse)
 - repetition
 - metaphor
 - tonality
 - structure

An exercise of just writing down the forms of a whole bunch of songs

 - length of lyrics
 - ease of memorization (long and short term)
 - biographical
 - imitation
 - referencing
 - bridge
 - intro
 - outro
 - stealing

More soon, I hope.