“The reason I don’t put our lyrics in our albums is because the stanza format of lyrics looks too much like poetry, and I don’t hold my work on that level. Rock lyrics have the accompaniment of music. Poetry has cadence, but it doesn’t have melody and it doesn’t have a band playing around it to fill in the holes. Music is not as high an art form as poetry or any other writing form.”
—Paul Banks, Paul Banks on Songwriting, Literature, and Process (via professionalcynic)

(Source: writersonprocess.com, via heavenisneverenough)

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