The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #37877   Message #530608
Posted By: Amos
17-Aug-01 - 11:31 PM
Thread Name: Do songs have to make perfect sense?
Subject: RE: Do songs have to make perfect sense?
C'mon guys. You're standing on the boundary layer between semantics and raw untrammeled unboxed poetic beauty. As folksingers you know perfectly well that the semantic "perfect sense" that may or may not exist is never the whole story of a good song. If it were you wouldn't need to put music behind it -- you could just write little short stories.

Semantics vary with the power and intentof the author. Choose a language you like!!

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