I’m going to deviate from the rules of “Basic” and try to refute the crit here, as this is a test post
This is my recording of the song on my phone from about half an hour ago: https://on.soundcloud.com/fff3cKUcFePrzddt5
Apart from the feedback on how to format it, I don’t see anything in your post (crow) that explains why the lyrics aren't lyrics.
The link is to the song with the lyrics in my post and so by definition my post had song lyrics
You made the point that any lyrics being posted on the Pen are for the reader to use as he deems fit, and therefore has to be capable of being interpreted by a wide variety of people. I don't think the vast majority of song lyrics work this way. Song lyrics are written with a certain tune in mind, or are made to fit a tune that the composer has got in his head. Very rarely is the text written first. In opera, that is the case - the text comes first. Likewise, when a composer chooses a particular poem to set to music, it is a different story - Schubert and Heine, for instance.
But in all those cases, the text stands alone, apart from the music. That is not the case with the vast majority of 'pop' lyrics, which are - frankly - crap as stand alone poems, even the best of them.
Lyrics of the first kind - the ones that stand alone - should be critiqued like any other poem.
Lyrics of the second kind - the pop song variety - can't be critiqued separately from the song.
This is my recording of the song on my phone from about half an hour ago: https://on.soundcloud.com/fff3cKUcFePrzddt5
Apart from the feedback on how to format it, I don’t see anything in your post (crow) that explains why the lyrics aren't lyrics.
The link is to the song with the lyrics in my post and so by definition my post had song lyrics
You made the point that any lyrics being posted on the Pen are for the reader to use as he deems fit, and therefore has to be capable of being interpreted by a wide variety of people. I don't think the vast majority of song lyrics work this way. Song lyrics are written with a certain tune in mind, or are made to fit a tune that the composer has got in his head. Very rarely is the text written first. In opera, that is the case - the text comes first. Likewise, when a composer chooses a particular poem to set to music, it is a different story - Schubert and Heine, for instance.
But in all those cases, the text stands alone, apart from the music. That is not the case with the vast majority of 'pop' lyrics, which are - frankly - crap as stand alone poems, even the best of them.
Lyrics of the first kind - the ones that stand alone - should be critiqued like any other poem.
Lyrics of the second kind - the pop song variety - can't be critiqued separately from the song.