Originally Posted by: kingdavidI could give a few reasons why lyrics are important,but I'll just give this one:

I was going to let this comment pass, because I thought it was true but then I thought it about it a while and realized it was wrong. Music has as much of an underlying meaning as any lyrics do. When one writes music they are not just thinking "I'm going to play this note, this note, and this note". More often then not they're thinking "I'm going to play this note because it makes me feel this way," or something to that effect. Thats just like writing. When one write sentences they are not just thinking "I'm going to write this word, this word, and this word." Rather they will set up the words in a way that communicates they're mesage the best. There are many way to say what I just said, but my basic point is that music as much as an aesthetic effect as poetry. They are both art.