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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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stevie stating ,"its the poet that i am , this is how i write" you also have to remember when stevie writes in her journals sometimes she writes things down as a poem or in chants , then she goes back to them later on and puts them to ryme when working on her songs. so she is a poet in her own write, maybe what you consider a poet, is something you read as a poem, but stevie does write in her journal daily, and she does write like a poet, i have that clip when she was reading from her journal and it was an amazing clip to see exactly how she thinks and puts it to paper and then draws from it later to form her songs. when she composes a song , i think its correct for her to use what sounds write for her to make a song flow.. i love the way thrown down flows and i am glad she kept it the way she wanted it and that lindsey didnt push it . i think they both state what they want to say which is great that they can do that today, and then in the end they come to terms to agree that its ok after all is said and done.