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Originally Posted by Lindsfan
He really is as underappreciated in his lyrics as he is in his guitar playing
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True and I think he's always been an amazing lyricist. He just may not have started off doing it as consistently as he does today. I think SYW was the first time I saw such a solidity of words and message, in so many songs, but certainly I've admired his very original use of words and phrases since practically BN. Or maybe BN didn't stand out on its own, but once I had a body of his lyrics to go on and paired the words in DLMDA with the words in SHN, they began to tell me a story and I've been following the Lindsey word tapestry ever since.
So many times I will not particularly like a song (SMAP, WATL) but his words wrap around my heart anyway.
So, I think I heard Miranda and felt, "Top to bottom, this guy is writing poetry." And that may have been the first time I thought about the lyrics as a
whole song, but I never felt, "Whoa. He has sure grown and changed and has come so far." That aspect of Lindsey has always been there. Not everything you are is always on display at full blast at any given time. Michele