Why do lyrics matter?

[midnight Target]

Sarcasm tags need to be mandatory for the benefit of the lost.

Brilliantly put.

(Sarcasm tag here)

[Jackal1]

So the light bulb just went on, huh? 

[midnight Target]

Only if you just pulled the little string in your basement.

[Jackal1]

Never heard that song before.

[Masherbrum]

Why do lyrics matter?    Easy, they are supposed to work with music to complete the "vehicle" of delivery.    Sometimes the music comes to the driver's seat of the vehicle and sometimes the lyrics are in the driver's seat.


JB73, Soma is one of my all-time fav. tunes.    Are you talking about:
"So let the sadness come again
On that you can depend on me
Until the bitter, bitter end
When good sleeps in bliss."      This part?   

Take "Unknown Soldier" for example.   Without the lyrics this blatant Vietnam War protest song wouldn't be a good tune.   The radio stations had NO IDEA this was a protest type song and played it routinely back then.   

Arlo Guthrie, Warren Zevon, Dylan, Jim Morrison and Bernie Taupin are lyrical gymnasts.   Doesn't matter the lyric structure, they all work.   They are geniuses. 

[xNOVAx]

Wish you were in Houston area, i need a drummer for this project......

http://www.myspace.com/groovegrinder

on dude..

[AWMac]

Houston sux.

Katy Litter.

Oh well.

Mac

[LEDPIG]

See Rules #4, #5

[AWMac]

You from Katy Mac.

Nope... My Daughter lived there once. I visited her during a Halliburton thingy.

Mac

[EskimoJoe]

Listen to Mad World by Gary Jules. Without lyrics, it would be...akward...

[lazs2]

See Rules #4, #5

[kamilyun]

I thought about posting in this earlier, but I think the answer (to the original question) is yes and no...depends on the artist.  I was just listening to some early U2, back when they were much more expressive about their religion.  Bono (love or hate him) really poured his heart into writing some songs.  To ignore the lyrics would just be blasphemy (pun intended).

On the other hand, some artists just right down some gibberish to make it sound melodious or interesting...Happy Mondays come to mind.

So there you have it

Please return to your regular programming....

[B17Skull12]

The lyrics typically tell a story and the music is what sets the mood.

Winnar!!!!


This is true atleast for me.  I wrote the first and only song that my band has right now.  Lyrics tell the story and music sets the mood.  Could have set it better myself.

[Shuckins]

Lyrics matter....at least for me:

"I grew up a-dreamin'
of bein' a cowboy,
and lovin' the cowboy ways.
Pursuin' the life
of my high-ridin' heroes
I burned up my childhood days.
I learned all the rules
of a modern-day drifter,
don't you hold on
to nothin' too long.
Just take what ya need
from the ladies
then leave them,
were the words
of a sad country song.

My heroes have always been cowboys,
and they still are it seems.
Sadly in search of
and one step in back of
themselves, and their
slow-movin' dreams.
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willie Nelson