Verse Chorus Bridge

Songwriting taken apart, one song at a time

Jonah Lefebvre2 episodes1 min of audio52 playsEpisodic

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S1 · E2Feb 4, 20260:4233 plays Preview

Writing a sad song that does not feel sorry for itself

An artist joins Jonah to take apart a grief song she wrote for her father, talking about restraint, specific details over big words and the line that nearly did not make it.

S1 · E1Jan 18, 20260:3719 plays Members

The chorus that was a bridge for six months

Jonah and a co-writer trace a song whose chorus started life as the bridge, playing the voice memos that show the moment it moved and why the song finally worked.

About the show

Verse Chorus Bridge is a weekly show about how songs are written. Jonah Lefebvre, who has written for other artists for fifteen years and has a drawer full of songs nobody will ever hear, takes one song per episode and pulls it apart at the kitchen table: where the title came from, why the chorus lands on that word, what the bridge is doing, which line was rewritten forty times. Most weeks a co-writer or the song's artist joins him, and they play early voice memos next to the finished version. It is for people who write songs in notebooks and bedrooms, for musicians who want to understand structure, and for fans who have ever wondered why a particular line gives them a lump in the throat. Episodes run about 40 minutes and end with a small writing exercise you can try before next week. New episodes every Wednesday.

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