Is writing song lyrics easier than writing poetry?

HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!! That was HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!! and good! I'll keep going back to that for a laugh, I'm certain! Hehehehe Hahahaha

Ohhhhh! *bustin' a gut here!* Thanks!

In all seriousness, I do have some song lyrics (with the tune in my head!). Is it ever worth posting that kind of stuff? Maybe, I will and share the link with you!

Never mind, Regwah! I know how much you like to laugh! Take a peek at this instead, will you please? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200905...

I hope I didn't offend anyone with the 'holy' part of my comment! I was laughing and typing and not really thinking, I guess! Oops!

Ok lets start with facts - Lyrical poetry is one of the three main branches of poetry, so therefore all songs are poems. If you want to debate this please submit all contradictions to Harvard, Standford, Oxford, Yale, and Cambridge Universities. Not all poems are songs: there is also dramatic and narrative poetry. Some idiot in his pretense to be a poet stated that poetry had to have a metrical sound ... umm, what about "free verse" poetry and intentional cacophony. I did thumbs down this dweeb for his misinformation. Poetry is art, and the old cliche ever holds true of it ... "I might not know (poetry), but I know what I like." So please stick to what you think you know which is nothing but your opinion.

I agree completely with shapokliyak - writing a song is easier because you have the music to aid you. There are songs which sound to me really glorious, moving, heart-rending... then I search for the lyrics & often find they're not even that awesome at all, but it's the awesome music that masks it. Whereby a poem has to stand all for itself and therefore has to be flawlessly perfect to be a real good one.

Song writers are normally good in free verse poems and relate them to go with the rhythm. Good lyrics are conceived through emotion and depends much on mood and inspiration. A poetic inclined person being sentimental in nature could be a easier songwriter. It is art and nature by birth. i think simple poem is easy but song lyrics could be more disciplined and restraint.

Writing good lyrics is easier than writing good poetry. You can take all kinds of liberties with scansion in song lyrics and just fudge things around until they fit. With lyrics, the singer controls the "sound," whereas with poetry the reader controls the "sound."

Find out where she lives, go there, stalk her, get arrested, get out and stalk her some more, get arrested again, get out and stalk her some more - maybe stand on her lawn with a boom box like in 'Say Anything', get arrested one more time... then maybe, she'll be so mad she'll write a song about how freakin' retarded you are.

writing poetry is easier, song lyrics is you have to arrange it with the music

Both are difficult.

But a poet can write song lyrics with very ease/comfortable.

Heheheee, that was comedy, no, I can't write a lick... well, I could write a lick, if you really wanted me too, but that may take awhile.

Oh god no, not for me. I can't write lyrics to save my life.

Well apparently it's easier than I find it to be... interesting...