Can Lyrics Be Poems and Poems Be Lyrics?

[Reconsiderate]

[Reconsiderate]

another thing i realized recently about how lyrics and poems are different: with lyrics, you can sort of skip over bridges/transitions a bit, allowing music to fill the gaps. with poems, absolutely everything needs to be put into words on the page.

[yourangel]

alot of my stuff is at first poems. Ive always thought of lyrics as poetry put to music.

[chasin_insane]

Well....I look at it this way...most of the great songs out there started out as a poem....And I got a good example of the blend of how poetry can be lyrics spoken or not....I don't know how many Doors fans there are out there, but, take a look at An American Prayer by The Doors....Thats a collection of POETRY spoken by Jim Morrison In 1970 on his B-Day for the sole purpose of doing a POETRY album.....The rest of the band finally put music to it later in the decade, I think somewhere around 1977 or 78 and it turned out to be one of my all time favorite albums ever...when he spoke the poems he(Jim) did it with a rhythm and a beat that was not there when he spoke the words but it fit beautifully to music because of it.....I spose it's all in how you look at it really...A good poem is usually spoken in time and measure just like music is played in time and measure and both seem to work together in that respect....After all if you just simply spoke the words to a poem without any type of time or measure or any of that other stuff it would be just words...but if you speak them with meaning and feeling and even a lil inflection it takes on a whole new sound and appeal.....just my two cents

[djsmooth4lyfe]

Yeah definitely..matter fact the best and most recognized lyrics are poems...consider Tupac...he was a poet as well as a lyricist and look at how much he is respected