Using cliche's in small measures to reinforce a point can help.

What I don't like mostly are lyrics to where I am singing about myself.
They often start out that way, but I have to reflect them back on something other then me.
Sometimes a cliche comes in handy for that.
Otherwise it may be babblespeak.

But lyrical content or what makes sense with it does not always seem to be a factor in the likability of a song, depending on the music that is accompanying it. That is where lyrics seems different from poetry. There is the music to accompany that and it would be hard to rule out a song for just a cliche.

I have heard songs often to where the lyrics are different then what I thought I heard when I read them.
That seems to change the dynamic of them.
But the method that the lyrics were made never bothered me either way.

If there were lyrics more suitable for a certain genre then I guess that would matter.

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