rhyming lyrics.
should some of the lyrics rhyme?
should all of them?
should none of them?

when i think about it, rhyme is an overused, corny cheap trick that helps people (like me) who don't know what they want to say figure it out by limiting the possible word choices. "oh well let's see: moon, soon, d. boon... now i'll just connect the dots".

i find it hard to defend my rhymey lyrics, but then i notice that a lyricist as celebrated as leonard cohen rhymes "hallelujah" with "do ya" many times in one of his best songs.

rhyming, you're good enough for bob dylan, joe strummer, morrissey and stephen merritt and countless others. maybe it's ok if i don't stray from this old formula?

It's also important from a musical perspective - if you're making sounds with your mouth, the tone of the sounds you're making is VITAL and that's where assonance and rhyme and consonants and proper vowels come into play.

I think that if you write the lyrics after the music, rhyming works fine.

But if you write it without any music, most of the time, it just looks stupid.

I'd say it's over used.

I'm with Antero. I see rhyming two consecutive lines of a verse as akin to playing in the same key for those two verses.

NC

My rhymes are bottomless...

hey, i've always wondered, does it count as a rhyme if you use the same word? how about if it's an alternate meaning of the same word? because rappers do that sometimes and i think it might be cheating.

BClark wrote:hey, i've always wondered, does it count as a rhyme if you use the same word? how about if it's an alternate meaning of the same word? because rappers do that sometimes and i think it might be cheating.

I call crap on that. I call it "Westing" after Kanye.

CRAP

I cringe every time I hear a rhyme for rhyming's sake. Sometimes it makes me vomit a little.

I think lyrics need more cynghannedd.

Better than alliteration.