I have all these lyrics and song concepts floating around in my head but I can never bring a full song out of them because they're all disconnected i.e. each line belongs to an entirely different song and cannot possibly be connected to the rest. How do I get my brain to use one of these lines and form something at least half decent? Also, i have a very vague understanding of music theory and every time I try to write a melody, it ends up sounding more like an instrumental part of whatever song, so I can't use music theory to figure out what chord progression would work out best with whatever tune I just hummed out and use that to try and create a melody or whatever. It's just so frustrating having all these ideas and tunes but never being able to do anything with them. Pls send help.
just write them all down in a list and eventually you'll figure something out. sometimes the only way through this is to pretend you are in a contest for worst song ever written. this may help you get into the game of things