Devo suck periods? Ewwwww!
Then why is your head that colour? Sorry: color.
The correct usage would be "It isn't a song if it doesn't have lyrics (or rather, a lyric). Songs needs lyrics. Man." Music. on the other hand, does not of course.

Also, here's something to consider: the spelling of Devo can be rearranged to make the word dove. The dove is the symbol of the Holy Spirit, one incarnation of the Holy Trinity. So if you slag Devo off, you're basically slagging off the Holy Spirit, AKA God, also making baby Jesus cry, and you should feel bad.

Pretty simple I would have thought. A song has to be able to be sung, therefore needs a lyric. Is "Moonlight sonata" a song? No, but it's still a beautiful piece of music. Well, that's how I see it anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song

You're misinterpreting the convention as the rule.

I...don't...agree.

Whatever. To me, a song is something with words. Anything else is a music track or piece of music. You can't sing it, it ain't a song.

To me, the sun is a planet.

Just because music is subjective doesn't mean that the terminology is.

As I say, whatever. Dude.

Kind of proves my point though really: what that says is that songs usually have words, but these ones don't, and anyway, excellent as they are, they're pieces of music, just titled Songs Without Words. I actually have that album. Beautiful stuff. But not songs in the conventional sense.

There's also birdsong of course, but that's an entirely different matter.

If someone played you "Classical gas", would you consider that a song? Perhaps it's just a personal thing I've grown up with, but the various definitions below seem to bear this out.

song Meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/di...y/english/song

Song | Define Song at Dictionary.com

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/song

An actual song without words is an instrumental, or a piece of music.