lyrics don't make a genre, but genres do produce and perform styles of lyrics unique to themselves. for example, an indiepop band isn't going to sing about dismembering a prostitute, like a brutal death metal band would, nor would a metalcore band sing about things as abstract as Animal Collective does.
the subject matter does not need to be original. by that standard, all music has sucked for the past several decades, with few exceptions. everything has been written about. furthermore, lyrics do not need extensive vocabularies to be good, either. sometimes the simplest of words and the most succinct of songs are the most powerful. besides, no one wants to sing along to seven-syllable words they dont' even understand. plain and simple, this song is meant to be performed ina basement to 50 kids, by an unkempt man with an acoustic guitar. the crowd shouts along and everyone is happy. that is folk-punk
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