Forum Overview :: No Stairway to Heaven :: Which is more significant, music or lyrics?

[quote name="Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS)"]I can remember a few times when the music of a song affected me much more strongly than the words. Most of the time when I listen to a song, it's the words and the ideas expressed that I think of rather than the music. But it doesn't make the music irrelevant, though. Probably the one song I most remember striking me by sound alone was the opening of Fleetwood Mac's <i>Everywhere</i>. There is like a trilling effect of a tone, that when I first heard it, I thought it was possibly the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard, it struck me that hard. And this was before I even heard the lyrics. [youtube id=jbsaj0XHUeg] One of the first CDs that I heard on the radio that was strong enough to make me willing to buy it, was Martin Page's <i>In the House of Stone and Light</i>, and it was probably the words that affected me the most. Will I let it Show me my soul? Tell me of that place Where I must surely go? [youtube id=eIa9UEXd98Q] [/quote]