It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.
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It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.
You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.
When there are no lyrics, people can picture what they want. It's a reflection of where they are in their lives. Music becomes a mirror.
When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.
Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.
Poetry, first and foremost, is the lyric. It's the music.
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