True, which is why Trollheart is right. Technically speaking, a song is a piece of music with words that are sung, even though many people use the word colloquially to mean any piece of music.

Songs usually have words=/=songs inherently have words. Much in the same way that all metalheads don't have long hair despite it being a trend in that community.

Does this count if I sing a song intended to be instrumental?

Definition: a musical piece adapted for singing or simulating a piece to be sung

At a certain point the colloquial forms of words become the formal version and this definition reflects that. I think that things have changed a bit since we've moved away from Old English.

They sure have. For example, the word "song" didn't exist in Old English.

It was just a throwaway line, dude. Don't make a federal case of it. This is why I qualified my statement by saying "to me", which you then replied to with a frankly stupid analogy about stars. All the major dictionaries back me up on what I say, but as Zappy says, it is a trivial point and, you know, I got Hugo-award losing novels to write.
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Your qualification is invalid.

So it just originated in Old English and was never heard from in that part of the linguicity again?

Online Etymology Dictionary

Read your own link. The Old English word was "sang".

Old English is different from modern English? You don't say...

People use to say this to me so much. It was a massive irritant. I knew a kid in high school who said it about metal. Refused to hear me out.

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That was going to be my response, then we had pages of arguing over trivial information. FFS.

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