Originally Posted by: M.E.Swhich should come first, lyrics or the tune?

i have neither but i am not excellent at making lyrics so should i put down a tune then think lyrics to go over the top?

I think you might find that easier, yeah. The only completed songs I've ever written started out with music, then I added lyrics to them. I find that when I'm writing songs, I need to know the rhythm and rhyming pattern the words should have before I write them, so having music to put it to helps. I've written some lyrics without music, and they still don't have music. I find it a lot harder to put music to words than words to music.

To summarize: the tune.