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Originally posted by CarneVaca
Songwriting is not poetry.
"Now you're going home" is not poetry.
Very few songwriters can put poetry to music. Leonard Cohen, for instance:
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Or:
Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women
There's a shoulder where Death comes to cry
There's a lobby with nine hundred windows
There's a tree where the doves go to die
There's a piece that was torn from the morning
And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost
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Songwriting absolutely can be poetry. Stevie has achieved what I would consider poetry on several of her songs. However, the overwhelming majority of her stuff just doesn't cut it, poetry-wise (look at some of her demos fer chrissakes...).
But a lot of Bob Dylan's stuff is crap, too- so I wouldn't consider him a "poet".
Leonard Cohen may be a poet, but he can't sing for crapola....