Posts Tagged ‘sacred songs’

Sacred Song Writing

Monday, March 16th, 2009

I come from the theater.  Oh I grew up on rock n’ roll and folk, but my real training in lyric writing was in the theater.  It wasn’t until then that I really began to grow as a lyricist, as a storyteller.

The lyrics of a theatrical song have to have movement, they have to go from point A to point B dramatically.  Otherwise they just tend to sit there on the stage, no matter how beautiful, and often end up getting cut from the show because they don’t move the plot forward and are too much of a stage wait.

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