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Originally Posted by bungalowbill357
In that sense, any time a song is 'spoken' we call that 'spoken word'. The only reason they are sometimes refered to as lyrics is because people are used to songs consisting of lyrics, and still refer to spoken word as lyrical which it is not. Lyrics are poetry. There for all lyrics are poetry, but all poetry is not lyrical so therefore not all poetry is lyrics.....get it?
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To consider something as poetry, by the normal definitions, it has to use language in a way which is more beautiful, or more rhythmic, or more vivid, or somehow more creative than the way in which language is typically used in everyday conversation. I agree that MOST lyrics are poetic/poetry, but it is entirely possible to sing non-poetic words to music, fitting them to a melody, which is enough for them to be described as lyrics. The pure fact that they are sung isn't enough to promote the words to the title of poetry, as the definition of poetry comes from the use of the use of vocabulary and grammar, not from the context in which that vocabulary and grammar is read.
AC/DCs lyrics, however (although Moley disagrees), are a form of poetry but they are very simple and clear poetry. They do use metaphor, rhyming and specific meters, so they definitely count as poetry.