- Your main goal in writing songs is to catch people's attention, and to tell and story about how you feel about problems in your community, the environment, world peace, etc.
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Pick a catchy tune that is well-known (think classics, nursery rhymes, folk songs, commercials), or make up a tune that is uncomplicated and easy to learn.
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Make the words clear and understandable. It may even help to display your lyrics on large pieces of cardboard so that the message really hits home.
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Avoid sarcasm, unless you will be performing for a captive audience who will understand it. Often when singing sarcastic songs outside, it is easy for a passerby to hear only a fragment and misconstrue its meaning.
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Tailor your song to where it will be sung: if you are singing to a crowd outside, the song should be short, catchy and repetitive. If you are singing to a smaller audience, inside, then longer, story-type songs or raps are suitable.
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If you want to get your point over in a big way, notify the media that a musical act will be there. The media like reporting on something different, colourful and flashy.
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Try to keep the information details in your songs up-to-date. Usually the underlying issues and principles of the songs themselves endure, though.
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