>i was about to point out that he was assuming (wrongly) that
>the lyrics IS the song.
>
>some people feel that a song is a certain balance between
>music and lyrics working together and I think there's
>currency to that idea, but in my experience, I've found that
>the song is really the melody and the changes… lyrics are
>often an afterthought

i dont mean you have to be dylan or someone, but the melody could be the most beautiful thing in the world but if the words dont resonate/arent believable/dont fit into the structure/arent related well phonetically, i dont think people will care. as you doubtlessly know, that was the reason for artists having writers to specifically pen the words. sometimes i wish they still did.