Sam, I think what Marc is saying is that your lyric has to become a finished song, i.e. set to music and recorded by musicians. The next step is to "shop" the song to an artist that might want to cut it. This is where it gets confusing for me too. After the artist decides to cut the song, I am assuming that you, as the writer, get risiduals and some sort of fee for allowing the artist to cut it? I'm assuming contracts are drawn up and signed. To what percent who gets/pays what, I'm not sure. Anyone who knows more about the details of a transaction like this, I'd be interested to know!

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