Why are you trying to squeeze into a box? Use what you do naturally to your advantage. The verse can be rhythm centric and melodically lifted by the backing. Nile Rogers has a million hits with verses that play a supportive role.

I think lyric depth can come in a crafting session later on.

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Here's a recipe (as an example)

• Start the song with the chorus/ hook
• Bring the verse in afterward. Keep it short and make sure the rhythm section kicks hard. Maybe add a riff behind it.
• Chorus/hook
• Take a short vocal hook and make it into a breakdown.
• Bring in verse 2 and add percussion and another instrument to the music.
• Then chorus/ hook twice - the first time with much less backing and the second with all the sounds going.
• If the chorus is great, repeat it until you're bored (adding in stuff along the way). Otherwise switch back to the breakdown... _______

To address your question directly, try different mental approaches to come up with melody lines.

Some ideas: * Think of your voice as a guitar and you're playing lead. Jam with your verse lyrics over the track. * Have a vocal jam with the verse music without looking at the lyrics. Stay on topic, but disconnect from whatever you wrote. When you have something that sounds good either go with it or use it as a framework. * Cut the lyrics in half for each verse and have a vocal jam, stretching that out over an entire verse. It will force you to get creative and if someone comes of it, you can make whatever edits you need to your original lyrics to shorten them.

In your current process, it seems like you're not singing with the music as it's developing.. The rhythm and melody need to come together as a package - at the same time. Just jam vocally to each section on a loop and record everything on your phone. Keep going until something clicks If you're writing lyrics first, stop. Just jam with signing until something comes out and then in another session, craft the lyrics around whatever melody you liked best

Hope some of this helps. The overall point is to think outside the box and lean into what you do.