LOL, Frank. But a telling point--the poignant immediacy of really well-grown lyrics started being adulterated when commercial groups discovered they could synthesize the flavor the way Poptarts synthesize "strawberry". Same thing's true of commercial agriculture--you can get volume, and profit, but you sure do make a devil's bargain as far as richness is concerned.

Don't get me wrong -- modern numbers sometimes have really telling and relevant lyrics to them (I am, of course, thinking of Dylan among others) but they occur in a flood of organized songs, written for different reasons, by a different kind of singer, in a different kind of time-stream.


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