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[Tiger the Lion]

Busker, 

I picked a fight with the right person. Thanks for refusing to back down. 

I think, now, that poems fit to be sung are lyric. Poems with a repeated line or lines are lyrics.

Once that happens, the ordinary rules of interpretation are estranged, and something weird happens to authorship.

You’re wrong about this not being worth further discussion. I dare you to find anything resembling the following rule anywhere out there. I know for sure none of us had it.

Cannon of Lyrics Interpretation
1. Lyrics are poems with a repeated line or lines.

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Wrong again. One example... Lyrics below.



Nautical Disaster

I had this dream where I relished the fray
And the screamin' filled my head all day
It was as though I'd been spit here, settled in, into the pocket
Of a lighthouse on some rocky socket off the coast of France, Dear
One afternoon four thousand men died in the water here
And five hundred more were thrashin' madly
As parasites might in your blood
Now I was in a lifeboat designed for ten, ten only
Anythin' that systematic would get you hated
It's not a deal nor a test nor a love of something fated, death
The selection was quick, the crew was picked in order
And those left in the water got kicked off our pant leg
And we headed for home
Then the dream ends when the phone rings
"You doin' alright? He said, "It's out there most days and nights
But only a fool would complain"
"Anyway, Susan, if you like, our conversation
Is as faint a sound in my memory
As those fingernails scratchin' on my hull"