Q: Like being about a specifc thing that happened to you, or that you felt? Or do these things just inspire bits of lyrics, maybe a general concept for the song but not like "fuck I'm gonna make the song ABOUT this event in my life"
A: sometimes it's fun to write the song at the time of the event. sometimes it's fun to pick a random town in your city's transit system, and go there and write a song along the way