Janet writes:
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Nowhere is this discussion does anyone separate words from music. The word "song" is erroneously used by popular writers and most posters here to mean words that please them. A song succeeds by the marriage of words and music, whether or not the words were conceived separately.
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Well I did, I posted a whole post on the subject, but everyone ignored it and I got paranoid about being off track - people were just posting Dylan lyrics all around me - so I edited it out for fear of seeming to be a killjoy.
I think there are technical differenfes in how you use words for songwriting as opposed to poetry, and I can't think of a single poem, set to music, which has benefited from it (Jerusalem, anyone? That lovely, awed, decate, wistful poem, set to ponderous portentous music).
KEB