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Is your lyric too long?

  • Do you know the appropriate amount of words for a commercial pop lyric?
  • Do you know what bearing the tempo of the song has on the amount of lyrics you can use?
  • Is your lyric actually a lyric, or is it a poem, a list, or an essay?,,,,
  • Did you know the average amount of verses for a pop song at the moment = 2 , whilst the average amount of choruses = 3
  • Are you lyrics too 'wordy'?Here's a great article on this subject >>


How to write the perfect lyric?

Improve your lyrics at songs at Songbay

What is a lyric? In order to write a perfect lyric, It’s important to realise what a lyric is , or rather what it is not. A lyric is NOT a song. Often people use the word ‘lyric’ and ‘song’ interchangeably. This is not accurate. A lyric is NOT a song, in the same way a poem is not a lyric, nor a song, (just to cloud the issue further, people also confuse poems with lyrics and songs) but we’ll Continue

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