I myself am 22. I was talking on another post to someone who was having inspirational problems, from a music perspective rather than lyrics. Similar kind of advice, just keep practising. One day you'll write a song and think, damn, thats good. A year later that song, which was your best song, will now be your worst. Trust me, as long as you are diligent and hard working you will progress and the more you put in the more you get out. Anyway, I've digressed from what I was going to say.... the point I was going to make relates to you being 15. When I was 15 I was in the same boat, had all these songs that I wanted to write, but didn't know what to write about. When you're that age I think that unless something really amazing or increbibly unfortunate happens you would struggle to be inspired, because at 15 nothing really emotionally consequential happens (apart from the prior mentioned). Even then, if you did have the inspiration you probably wouldn't have the skill set to put it onto paper properly. When I was 14 my Granda died, only recently have I started tihnking about writing a song about that because until the last year or 2 I wouldn't have been able to do something like that justice. At your age its just about working hard and writing all the time. you learn to play guitar and play your favourite bands songs, but then you need to learn to write songs. That sounds like its where you are now. Just keep working hard and you'll get tehre. Best piece of advice I could give you for progressing as a lyricist: Go out and buy a note book and fill it and repeat. That's what I've done since I was about 12 - drawers full of the things now. It has done me a world of good though. Also Read books. Vocabular diversity helps you out a lot. That doesn't mean use big words in songs, just that if you know a lot of words you have A) A better way to express yourself B) A more unique way of rhyming and phrasing lyrics, poems, whatever.
All the best.
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