this desperation's leaving me overjoyed

please understand,
this isn't just goodbye,
this is i can't stand you.

do you ever wonder how your favourite artists manage to write such amazing lyrics? i've been listening to no it isn't by (+44) lately 'cause it's been stuck in my head - along with bleeding love by leona lewis...yeah, random i know - and i realized that both songs have very powerful lyrics. the only difference in them is that mark hoppus - the singer and bassist of (+44) - wrote the lyrics himself, while bleeding love was written by jesse mccartney and onerepublic's ryan tedder.
honestly, writing a song is probably one of the hardest things i've ever tried to do. i find it harder than writing an academic essay. at least with essays you can bullshit and you can make it look good by copying and pasting - well not so much when you're in post-secondary but you catch my drift - but if you bullshit in a song it won't sound good. the key to finding good lyrics is finding words that fit with the music itself, which is very, very difficult to do - at least for me. you've got lyrics with simple words that speak in volumes like the beatles' yesterday and coldplay's yellow, and then you've got the songs with lyrics that can be read like a short story, like guernica by brand new and the district sleeps alone tonight by the postal service. both types of songs are amazing not only because they sound good but the lyrics fit so well with it - it's a perfect combination. why can't i write like that?! usually lyrics are written from experience or from something that the songwriter invisions in their head, but i really don't have anything interesting from my experience to turn into a song, and i'm not creative enough to think up of scenarios in my head to draw poetic words from. sigh. oh well.
i'll just write instrumentals. haha.