Improving my lyric writing skills

I'm gonna be boring and say practice practice practice.

If you play a instrument or are part of a band.
Come up with the rough idea of the music FIRST (how the verse and chorus might go).

Write the story of your song (with no rhyming), so you know where you're going with it and don't end up blank after five clever verses.
Write the story from different perspectives, a song about a mute could start from the worlds view of some quiet weirdo and then shift to the mind of a man desperate to have a voice and communicate.
Start writing lyrics with your musics rythmn always in mind (I like tap my feet and drum my hands to whatever beat i'm trying to put words to).
Try to hear the melody of the lyrics as you write them, how the lyrics sound and flow is more important than what they say.
The story doesn't need to be linear, backtrack and fast forward between verses if it fits.

If you're writing the lyrics leave room for a solo, solo's are always a good idea.

If you can't play anything you should learn how, it's a lot easier to write lyrics when you're writing them to a piece of music.

Those are pretty good, there's a mature amount of rhyming and half-rhyming instead of bland ABAB CDCD, a lot of good images too.
I'm jelly

oceanmachine wrote: »

I always have the same problem with getting one verse, one chorus, getting bored and then leaving a song.

We sat together at one summer’s end,
That beautiful mild woman, your close friend,
And you and I, and talked of poetry.
I said, ‘A line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
Better go down upon your marrow-bones
And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones
Like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather;
For to articulate sweet sounds together
Is to work harder than all these, and yet
Be thought an idler by the noisy set
Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen
The martyrs call the world.’

Yeats wrote that a century ago, so the problem isn't new...