Terry, it's certainly true that songs have to be written to be sung--that's what songwriters do for us. The problem with singer/songwriters is that while a singer will typically pass on a crappy song that someone else wrote, some singer/songwriters will perform a crappy song they wrote themselves, because they don't see how crappy it is. If they didn't sing their own songs, the lousy creations would never see the light of day, because no one else would sing them on a bet. Not to say that all s/sw's sing third-rate stuff, but apparently enough of them do to fuel this thread.