06-12-2024, 05:23 AM
@Crow, I'm thinking you would like to see lyrics written much like plays are. Or screenplays for that matter. With lots of cues outside the actual play. There's nothing wrong with that. But in reality, talented musicians can play and sing the pants off the normal rules of English. Let's have a look at this.
How would anyone qualify these lyrics via text only?
The crescendo on paper would be...
Ooooooooooooooo baaaabe,
when I pick up the phone...
(now because our hero is in despair, eating cold pizza and watching reruns - enter Gomer Pyle saying, "surprise, surprise, surprise" from the TV set)
(ok, now trickle down on the piano)
there'll be nobody home.
Context cues might go on indefinitely, no?
And how about that half verse at the end? That can't be right.
How would anyone qualify these lyrics via text only?
The crescendo on paper would be...
Ooooooooooooooo baaaabe,
when I pick up the phone...
(now because our hero is in despair, eating cold pizza and watching reruns - enter Gomer Pyle saying, "surprise, surprise, surprise" from the TV set)
(ok, now trickle down on the piano)
there'll be nobody home.
Context cues might go on indefinitely, no?
And how about that half verse at the end? That can't be right.