Noel,

The only people it matters to are potential purchasers or fans of the music and the industry itself, who deal in finished product, not music only (except for instrumentals) or lyric only.

Very few people in the world are really that interested in poetry. The low sales on poetry books, the interest in poetry at all from a commercial venture are the proof of this. It is a very small niche. Generally the rule of thumb is that the "only people interested in poetry are people who write poetry."

So that leads people to turn to songwriting if they have any hope of furthering their creative aspiritions past their living room.

So you have to get music on them. There are millions of songwriters and musicians out there. Just have to find the ones that work for you.

MAB