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Hiduke House

The Lyrics About &
Song Drafts Library

Ideas captured in original lyrics by Troy Hiduke Campbell

Turned into song drafts, paired with commentary, and included in longer ideas podcasts. More about the form and the mission here.

Links Key | 📄 = Lyrics Text, 🎵 = Song Drafts, 🎙️ = Full Podcast

As these ageless images fly through my mind

I see you in thousands of frames

Pictures of so many people I all know

But only know a few names

-Familiar Faces

The Songs About Songs EP

Lyrics about art and music

1. Familiar Faces

Lyrics about what an audience of "familiar faces" can mean to a veteran artist | 📄 🎵 🎙️

2. The Glass Pane

Lyrics about an analytical artist who feels divided from the world | 📄 🎵

3. My Favorite Songs

Lyrics about loving and relating to sad songs, but wishing you didn’t | 📄 🎵

Like you’re personalizing a basic human plot

You may hate me today, but one day you'll need me a lot

-Song For Another Time

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The Timelines EP

Lyrics about how meanings change over time

1. Song for Another Time

Lyrics about the power of simple songs and when people need them | 📄 🎵 🎙️

2. Just Like Those Skies

Lyrics about a love story told in four parts with a core visual metaphor | 📄 🎵

3. Glory Days Ahead

Lyrics about proudly and combatively inverting the glory days trope | 📄

4. I Like The New Me

Lyrics about embracing continual personal change | 📄

How does it turn out, no one really knows

Cause this is just life, and this is how it goes

-This Is Just Life

The Saddle Up EP

Lyrics about life through the lens of country music

1. This Is Just Life

Lyrics about an optimistic and realistic outlook on life| 📄 🎵

2. Where's Your Country?

Lyrics about longing for the calm and nature that exists everywhere | 📄

3. Call It A Paradise

Lyrics about how rural America is being both romanticized and ignored | 📄

4. One More Time

Lyrics about the "in-between love" trend in country and pop music | 📄

I just wanna zone for so long

And pour more than sleepy time in my cup

While I listen to a song

That sounds like a robot that has given up

-Blank Blues

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Concept Art by Brett Cuviello

The Modern Melancholies EP

Lyrics about distinct modern angsts, dreams, and pains

1. Blank Blues

Lyrics about a contemporary blues that has a distinct dissociative blankness | 📄

2. The Pendulum

Lyrics about the oscillating nature of metamodern culture | 📄

3. The Absurd Revival

Lyrics about the cultural revival of absurdism | 📄

4. Into My Head

Lyrics about escaping into the imaginary worlds inside one’s own head | 📄 🎵

Now we’re all screaming under our softest breath

Sunday brunch smiles but scared to death

-Sunday Brunch Smiles

The Fears EP

Lyrics about existential worries

1. Sunday Brunch Smiles

Lyrics about the fears that linger behind our smiles | 📄

2. A Sadness You Will Never Know

Lyrics about the valid fear of never being fully understood | 📄

3. Looking For A Different Version Of Me

Lyrics about the psychology of identity loss, change, and longing | 📄

And of every type of thing you’ve been dreaming of The only one that lives up to the hype is love

-The Hype

In Progress

Lyrical beginnings for future works

Happy Song Starts

Micro lyrics about happy feelings | 📄

Angsty Song Starts

Micro lyrics about different existential, bold, depressive, and angsty feelings | 📄

Putting Feelings Into Words

Micro prose about how academic psychology and artistic lyrics do a similar thing | 📄

Lyrics About

Missions

Share ideas through the unique power of lyrics

Show artists a way of intentionally writing that captures big authentic ideas

Show everyone how lyrics can help with discovering, creating, sharing, deciding, and planning anything in life, business, and art

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