Hey Sam,

Songwriters write songs. They do it for many different reasons, but they write songs. They're musicians.

In writing those tunes, lyrics are obviously a component, but only one component of many.

When thinking about a song, the composer doesn't differentiate the lyrics as a seperate etitiy. They are simply a part of the whole.

If you wish to be called a lyricist, that doesn't mean that you don't understand music. It simply means, that you understand music, and are much more adept at lyrics, than say writing a bass line, or doing a drum map, or arranging a symphony orchestra.

It is a skill, like any other, but is is not apart from music. How can it be ? It's a song afterall.....

cheers, niteshift


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