Susan wrote: > Just a big nod of agreement here Sybil. I too, used song lyrics in high school for poetry class, > but it was MY idea and the one way to bring Joni to school with me! Sister Mary Anita was soooo > easy to get off the track. She kinda dug Joni too! (Chelsea Morning & Electricity)
Just as well it was a few years ago, and that Turbulent Indigo hadn't been released! I don't think she would have reacted quite so well to "The Magdalene Laundries"?! I agree that lyrics can definitely be poetry - I don't think you could class the lyrics of Hejira as anything else! Jim Morrison is another (not mentioned very often here - I've always wondered why?) who could be classed as more of a poet than a lyricist. Certainly "An American Prayer" is far more about the poetry than the music. Hell ___________________________________ "To have great poets, there must be great audiences too." - Walt Whitman Hell's Home Page - NEW & IMPROVED! http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hell/index.html
