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Originally Posted by elphenor
lyrics are typically bad at being "literature"
because they are meant to be accompanied by music...it's almost like watching a movie with the sound off
if they knew you were going to watch it that way, it'd have been directed differently
there's definitely an art to good lyrics, although it may be an entirely different skill set from writing otherwise
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I agree with you for once, I never got the point of judging lyrics entirely on their own without acknowledging the context of the music.
Most songs lyrics are going to be more repetitive and limited in structure compared to what you can do with a poem or a novel, so yeah Bob Dylan's lyrics on their own are not gonna hold up against *enter name of famous poet here because I don't f
ucking know anything about poetry* but that's missing the point, you're comparing two completely different mediums.