Lyrics are designed to work with songs, therefore your lyric needs to have a song structure. Are you completely familar with song structures? For commercial, pop, country, rock, soul, hip hop songs, you need to have clearly defined sections. This is the most common song structure:
At SongBay, we regularly receive writing that is labelled as a lyric, although it is really a poem, a prose passage, a collection of thoughts or a sequence of stanzas that has not yet been shaped for music. That does not mean the writing lacks value. A poem may contain a striking image, a memorable phrase or an emotionally powerful idea. It may be the beginning of an excellent lyric. The important point is that a poem does not become Continue
You have finished a lyric, completed a song or developed an original idea for a new production. The work feels unmistakably yours. But if somebody copies it, uses it without permission or later disputes who created it first, what evidence will you have? Copyright normally begins automatically when an original work is created and recorded in a sufficiently permanent form. The practical difficulty is often not whether copyright exists, but whether a creator can produce a clear, credible record showing Continue
