"If there's a bustle in your hedgerow don't be alarmed now. It's just a spring clean for the May Queen."
Nah, no one would want to hear that.
Nah, no one would want to hear that.
And what reading level is that? Fourth grade? And in Stairway to Heaven, that's three lyric lines. Pretty simple writing.
I think the writer has a pointless point. The thoughts evoked in a song might be, or seem to be profound to the listener, but that has nothing to do with the reading level of the words and sentences.
I think 21twelve and I are mostly in agreement with his Rush lyrics as an example in post #14,
And there is a school of thought that the greatest writing uses the fewest and simplest words to express what the writer wishes to express. And song lyric writing does have to be pretty short and simple to fit into a tune anyone would want to listen to, especially in a song that makes it to #1.
So, songwriters might be some of our greatest writers, reading level be damned. A Pointless point.