A lyric without music is.... a lyric.

Calling it "Poetry" is a common pejorative. It's also old school Nashville scam artist terminology "let us set your 'poetry' to music"

There's a long interview I did with Dean Pitchford who is a lyricist with oodles of hits, awards and credits. He's also an author. He's NOT a poet. When he wrote the lyrics to FAME or Footloose or Let's Hear it for the Boy etc. before they were matched with music, they were not poetry, they were lyrics.

At best using the word was a bit smarmy and at worst an insulting pejorative often used by holier than thou types. I have to agree with Noel on this one.

To Hill Billy, sorry this took a left turn. Post your lyrics on the lyric feedback board and folks will check them out. If someone loves them, they might even be willing to add music and turn your lyric into a song.

Brian

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