I'm with Jerry Rasmussen on this one. Many years ago, the great Scottish ballad singer, Jeannie Robertson, listened to a tape of a very non-professional singer (one of the travelling folk in the Highlands) and observed: "Oh, he's a good singer; he tells his story well!" My advice: THINK about the words you're singing and what they really mean. I've occasionally heard very polished performers singing on what might be described as "automatic pilot," the words just pouring out by rote. I guess they had sung those songs so many times they thought they didn't have to think about them anymore.

Sandy