Would you consider being able to write good lyrics but not the tune a good talen

Question:i have the same talent! that is definitely a good one, too.
i've been struggling with the same question: if you mean it to be a song, how can you put it to music?
if you have friends who can play instruments and write music, than your problem is solved!
-good luck, and great talent!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: i have the same talent! that is definitely a good one, too.
i've been struggling with the same question: if you mean it to be a song, how can you put it to music?
if you have friends who can play instruments and write music, than your problem is solved!
-good luck, and great talent!

Absolutely! Many musical duos have paired up because one had talent composing a score, and the other writing lyrics. Look at Howard Ashman, who wrote the lyrics for "Little Mermaid", "Little Shop of Horrors", "Alladin", and other shows. He couldn't compose a lick of music, but he was brilliant with lyrics. (He did also write scripts as well).

Absolutely. There was a time when the separation of the lyricist (or the librettist) and the composer was considered the normal modus operandus.

Only with the rock era has the expectation shifted.

Anyway, Richard Rodgers' music without the words of a Hart or a Hammerstein is still an achievement, but a lesser one.

Without Hammerstein's words, we don't have "the corn is as high as an elephant's eye."

Instead, we only have, "da dum da da dum da da dum da da daaaa."

Definitely. Think Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice, Simon Garfunkel to name a few.

Ask, Hal David, Bernie Taupin, Ira Gershwin, and Robert Hunter, to name a few.

Yes, that's a gift in literature!

Lyrics without the music is poetry ;)

Yes. Look at Bob Dylan.