How to format your own lyrics for an AI music generator

Choose Mine under 04 · Lyrics in the studio, paste or type your lyrics into the box, and label each section on its own line with [Verse], [Pre-Chorus], [Chorus], [Drop], [Bridge] or [Break]. The box takes up to 5,000 characters. Club Ready Music wraps your text in an instrumental [Intro] and [Outro] block sized to your intro and outro bars, so leave those out.

Steps

1. Switch the lyrics mode to Mine

The segmented control at the top of the lyrics panel has three tabs: Mine, Write for me and Instrumental. Mine is the default. On a phone, it is the first option on step 3 of 5.

2. Put each section tag on its own line

Start every section with a tag in square brackets, alone on a line, followed by the lines of that section:

[Verse]
Neon on the wet street, nobody knows my name
[Pre-Chorus]
Count it down, count it down
[Chorus]
Hold the line, hold the line till the morning
[Drop]
Hold the line

Tags tell the model where energy changes. A [Drop] block with one or two words is how you get a vocal stab right where the music peaks.

3. Keep lines short and the hook repeated

Aim for four to eight words per line. Repeat the chorus word for word each time it appears; small variations confuse the melody. A club track usually needs one hook sung three times and a drop line sung twice, not six different verses.

4. Use the structure the writer uses

The built-in writer's structure works well as a template: Verse, Pre-Chorus, Chorus, Drop, Verse, Chorus, Drop, Break, Chorus. A [Break] with no lines, or a single whispered line, gives the model a breakdown to build back from. See the built-in writer guide if you want a draft to start from.

5. Do not write intro or outro sections

Club Ready Music strips any block whose tag contains "intro" or "outro" so the lyric sheet has exactly one of each: an [Intro] marked instrumental for your chosen Intro bars and an [Outro] marked no vocals for your Outro bars. If your song needs a sung opening, make it a [Verse] and set Drums-only intro off.

6. Expand the editor and check the count

Click Expand to open a full-screen editor with the same 5,000-character limit and a live counter. Read the lyrics aloud once. If a line is hard to say in one breath, split it.

7. Generate

Press Generate. Everything in the box is sung exactly as written, in the voice set under Voice and the language set under Language.

Tips

• Match the language select to the lyrics. Spanish lyrics with the select on English (US) still get sung, but the pronunciation is better when the language matches.
• Write the drop as a short stab. One to three words in a [Drop] block ("Hold the line") sits on the beat. Full sentences in a drop get buried.
• Blank lines are fine. Blank lines between sections help you read; the model ignores them.
• Keep parentheses for backing vocals. "(hold the line)" after a lead line is usually treated as a backing or echo phrase.
• Lyrics are stored with the track. The share page and your crate keep the text, so you can copy it into a re-render later.

Common problems

The model sang the section tags. Tags must be on their own line and in square brackets. [Chorus] works; "Chorus:" at the start of a line gets sung.

The vocal came in during the intro. Club Ready Music's vocal gate mutes the vocal stem in the intro window when it is enabled, and the drums-only intro block tells the model to wait. If it still leaks, try the other take or see fixing leaked vocals.

The track ended before my last verse. Long lyrics do not stretch the track; the Length setting does. Cut the lyrics to about 1,200 characters for a 4:00 track or raise the length to 5:00.

My lyrics were cut off. The box stops at 5,000 characters and the lyric sheet sent to the model is capped at the same length including the intro and outro blocks. Trim repeated verses and let the chorus carry the song.