Hey Everyone,

For those who are interested, I emailed my votes today. After reading through all of the lyrics once, I had a list of 14 which I then narrowed down to 7. Out of that 7 I surprised myself and voted for one lyric in which I had some issues with the content. I didn't agree with everything the writer was saying. But, the lyric did move me and I even remembered it weeks after my initial reading of it. All of the lyrics I voted for, except one, were about very heartwarming things. I guess that is what touches me the most. I think in these lyrics I could sense the honesty and intensity of the feelings the writer felt and that to me makes a great lyric! One of the lyrics was just so funny. I found myself telling people about it. That is also a way that I measured if the lyric touched me or not. I told another person about a different lyric that I ended up voting for.

On a different note (no pun intended! [Linked Image])It would be so interesting to see how great a song these lyrics made though wouldn't it? I wonder how many of the lyrics entered in this contest already have music written for them, and how many do not. In fact, I wonder if I could guess a few that do not based on the fact that the meter just seems impossible to write a melody to. Did anyone think the same thing? Who knows though, looks can be deceiving!

Marla



[This message has been edited by Marla (edited 09-13-2002).]

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