It's all about big ideas articulated, other than just 'I love you'. "But I've done song writing classes at local schools and Green Day are very accessible. "Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day - I guessed every single rhyming line of the song. Its less than groundbreaking rhyming of "take, make, break, fake" and "say, play, stay" are unlikely to trouble the English professors of the future.Įven Sting, who wrote it and stands by it as a powerful song, has said it's the stuff of rhyming dictionaries.īragg is no fan of the "moon, June, spoon" school of lyrics. The VH1 Poll saw the Police's Every Breath You Take sneak in at number 20. Everyone from Paul Simon to Pete Doherty is elevated to the status of poet by enraptured critics. Indeed, it seems the highest praise that can be heaped on a lyric is to compare it to poetry. Sometimes too much emphasis is put on hook and melody. Bands like the Smiths were writing more literate pop. "One of the great things about the 1980s was that there was a return to lyrics.
"It is often the songs that have less meaning that people tend to attach their meaning to, like One - what is it actually about?"įor him, meaningful lyrics must communicate some of the human experience. I do try and put some form of meaning into my lyrics whether it is a love song or a political song," he told the BBC News Magazine. "I've always been a content over style man. In the VH1 poll - which has prompted more than 2,000 alternative suggestions to the BBC News website - the Smiths and Nirvana complete the top three, and there are places for Radiohead's Creep and Eminem.īut it is easy to see that many of the songs to which fans attach the most emotional importance, are those that have no clear meaning on the surface.īilly Bragg, also known as the Bard of Barking, says he's always known that lyrics are important.
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