Poetry and Songs

It was interesting reading song lyrics as poetry, something I had never thought to do. Personally, I find it easier to understand ingest them by listening to them as lyrics to as song rather than as words in a poem, and that the words flow better with music attached to them. The music gives the words help elevate the meaning and tone of the lyrics that can't be found in just reading off the lyrics.The songs contain a lot of imagery in their lyrics, and are arranged in such a way that they almost tell a story. In that regard they are very similar to traditional poetry.