First Songwriting Session with Lyric Genie: A Step-by-Step Guide
TL;DR: Your first Lyric Genie session has six steps: describe your song in the chat (specifically), review the generated lyrics, refine through conversation until they feel right, save to your profile, and optionally take the lyrics to Suno or Udio to hear a complete song. The whole first session typically takes 20-30 minutes.
If you’ve never used an AI songwriting tool before, your first session can feel both easier and more iterative than you expect. Easier because you don’t need to know how to write lyrics — you just need to describe what you want. More iterative because the first draft is almost never the final version.
This guide walks you through the entire first session.
Step 1: Start a New Chat
Go to lyric-genie.com/chat.
Lyric Genie is a chat-based tool that transforms your song ideas into structured, professional lyrics ready for AI music generators like Suno. The entire experience happens in this chat interface — you describe what you want, and it generates complete lyrics with a title and style prompts.
You’ll see a text input at the bottom and a microphone button for voice recording.
Step 2: Describe Your Song (Be Specific)
The most important factor in your first session is the quality of your description. Specific descriptions produce specific, useful lyrics. Vague descriptions produce generic results.
Less effective: “I want a love song”
More effective: “I want an indie pop love song about the early stage of a relationship where you’re not sure if the other person feels the same way. The feeling is hopeful but nervous — like waiting for a text back. Acoustic with electronic elements, female vocal, conversational and modern.”
The elements to include:
- Emotion: What should the listener feel?
- Theme: What’s the specific situation or experience?
- Genre/style: What kind of music?
- Target audience or occasion: If relevant (birthday, wedding, kids song, etc.)
- Anything specific: Names, memories, details that should appear
You can type this or record a voice message. If you have a melody in mind, hum it first in your voice message before describing the song — this gives Lyric Genie melodic and rhythmic context alongside your words.
Step 3: Review the Output Honestly
The generated lyrics will appear in a few seconds. Read them with an open mind and honest reactions.
Look for:
- Lines that feel genuinely right — keep note of these
- Lines that feel flat, generic, or off — these tell you what you actually want
- Whether the overall emotional direction is correct
You don’t need to love the first draft. You need enough to work with. A first draft that’s 60% right is very useful. One that’s completely off-direction means you should adjust your description and regenerate.
Step 4: Refine by Telling It What’s Wrong
Continue chatting with specific feedback. This is where the final song emerges.
Structural feedback: “The verse is too long. Can you cut it down and make each line shorter?”
Emotional feedback: “The chorus feels too positive — I want it to have some ambivalence, like it’s not fully resolved.”
Specificity feedback: “Line 3 in verse 2 is too abstract. The specific image I want here is [describe it].”
Style feedback: “The language is too formal. Can you make it sound more like someone actually talking?”
Keep going until you’d be comfortable sharing this with someone. Usually takes two or four rounds.
Step 5: Save and Organize
Everything is automatically saved. Your My Lyrics page becomes your archive of all lyric work. Use the Refine button on any saved song to return and continue the conversation.
Step 6: Turn It Into a Real Song
This step is optional but deeply satisfying for most people.
Copy the lyrics, title, and “Includes Style” prompt from your saved song. Open Suno and enable Custom Mode. Paste each element into the corresponding field and generate.
Within 60 seconds, you’ll have two complete song versions with vocals, music, and production. The first time you hear a song you described become something listenable with real music — it’s a genuinely memorable experience.
For the complete workflow from lyrics to music, see the full guide to using Lyric Genie with Suno.
