what makes a text a suitable lyric?

[maxit]

uh! yes : I heard sir Elton sing real time the first period of a casual depliant, and turn it into a beautiful song ! and on the contrary I also know about L. Cohen, and his distilled lyrics. maybe there is something in singing that makes the words different - I've noticed that some phrases that seem such a mess spoken, when singed they are beautiful and deep (not N. Drake ones, they're beautiful even spoken by a text to speech software ;-) and , and this is the same thing - most of the times, when I read lyrics alone, I can't find a meaning or a reason for them, or I don't know what they're really about... so, maybe whatever the lyric, they are there for to sing them!

[Geir]

what makes a text a suitable lyric?

For that I only have one rule: RHYTHM !! It doesn't necessarily make it good lyrics, but suitable.

And I break that rule all the time when writing myself, so have to make up my own inner rhythm to be able to sing my own words

[Oldrottenhead]

elton john creating a song from an oven manual, he did the same thing on the parkinson show with a shopping list


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GuI4UUZrmw

[henwrench]

For me, lyrics are simply mouth shapes to act as a carriage for the melody. Ambiguous, moi ?   

   

                                                        henwrench

[maxit]

I feel that, after this one, we're getting near to the point, nea? LOL!!!!!

[henwrench]

Words, being words, will find their own meaning.

                                                     cockspanner

[Tony W]

I read an online menu for a song a while back. I broke into hysterical laughter last night when I realized that I was sitting in the very restaurant that spawned the song. My girlfriend gave me an odd look, which it was impossible to explain without her hearing the song, so I took her home and played it for her later.

[T.C. Elliott]

Any words (or sounds) that you can set to music. Which is anything, really. Da do do do, di da da da. What I prefer is far more particular than what is necessary.