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yesterday was World Poetry Day, in case anyone was interested

Ay, that is indeed true

That's the bit I retracted, having realised I was talking shite. Sorry! What if it was a badly-written verse? More likely to be a bad poem or a bad song (or even a good song)? How about a piece of prose - could you tell it was from a song without the music? As far as I can see describing lyrics...

actually, the last sentence above there is kinda daft, I retract it The rest stands. Honestly I think anyone who equates song lyrics with poetry probably has very little interest in poetry at all. Speaking as someone who actually cares about poetry a little bit like. They're just different things

I really think they are not equivalent, and I am already familiar with the work of the one actual poet anyone knows about who also made popular music. They're totally different art forms, it's just a cliche to say good song lyrics are "like poetry". Be honest now, who here has actually read a...

Hah Lads, they're song lyrics, not any kind of poetry. Can we all stop pretending that the two are somehow equivalent?

This It's about as original as rock/pop gets without being weird.

and @hugh's and @GO's and @Shano's ... Stop looking for an excuse to be depressed!

hmmph So you're ignoring my posts then?

FWIW my daughters (10 and 7) are totally put off by her voice too. The only time they had a stronger reaction to a voice was when I put on Damien Dempsey the car one day and they both pissed themselves laughing. I felt bad for oul Damo, like I had failed him somehow

She doesn't have a pretty voice - so what? Neither do you (probably) It was Only Skin that finally won me over on this one after being "meh" about it for ages. Normally I strongly disapprove of long songs, but somehow the longest of them all is my favourite on this one. I don't really like...