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Not all song lyrics have to be amazing poetry. Some are just fun, some are silly, some sound stupid but work with the sound and rhythm of the song. Some of those weird-fitting expressions eventually catch on as urban speak. I like it when songs combine interesting lyrics and good musical quality, but I'm aware that there are many songs, Top 40 or not, that I like that aren't exactly complex. They make me move, or feel things. That is enough for me, in many cases. I don't try to explain why I like certain songs. I just enjoy them. Dissecting music too much really ruins it for me.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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