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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">As far as knowing the results of where my lyric finished...I don`t want to know. If my lyric isn`t one of the top five, obviously it could have been better, and wasn`t as good as five others...If I didn`t win, (or at least place in the top five)...the next lyric I enter needs to be better. It`s that simple, to me anyway.
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Hey Dano,

I would not assume that because yours or because anybody's lyric didn't make it in the top five that it a) obviously could have been better, and b) it wasn't as good as the other five.

I'm telling you that I personally threw out lyrics that were well crafted and lyrics that I liked just because I had to choose 5. It was a toss-up - dead even - between several. A contest like this is a subjective adventure. The world is FULL of examples of people being rejected in contests, by record labels, by this and that, and sometimes rejected several times over, only ultimately to find an audience or employer who appriecated them immensely. If what you have is good (and you can get advise and critisism - but only YOU can ultimately decide if what you offer mets the grade), then rejection (and it's kinda strong to say you have been rejected if you don't make the top five in this contest) is only because the small audience that judged you didn't for some reason pick you. It doesn't mean that there is not a wider audience that wouldn't appriecate your talents. So, not making the top 5 in this contest doesn't NESSECARILY mean your lyric could have been better or that it wasn't as good as the others. It may just mean you weren't picked this time around.

Peace.

Boo...my name is Doug