We’re sat in his ground floor flat, listening to Dark Side Of The Moon.
“Words or music. Which is the greater part of a song?” he asks.
“Music. Definitely.”
“Really? So the story of the song is not important to you?”
“If I didn’t like the delivery of the words, I wouldn’t like the song. Besides the song is much more than the dialogue. Not all songs are dialogue, some convey feelings or moods. It’s the melody, chords and instrumentation that will catch my attention.”
“It’s the words that draw me to a song. Take Marillion’s ‘Warm Wet Circles’, there are so many clever meanings, it evokes so many scenes from a young man’s life.”
He quotes:
‘Like a mothers kiss on your first broken heart, a warm wet circle
Like a bullet hole in Central Park, a warm wet circle’.
“I’ll agree that’s clever, but I just can’t take to Fish’s delivery on this song, and the guitar solo is predictable….”
“But can’t you see the images?”
“I don’t give myself time to, because I don’t like the arrangement”.
I take a sip of wine. ‘The Great Gig In The Sky’ starts. A particular favourite of ours.
“What about this track?” I ask.
Ref: Writing101, Day 7 Prompt : Write a post based on the contrast between two things — whether people, objects, emotions, places, or something else.
Today’s twist: write your post in the form of a dialogue.
minor6th 
I agree with both 🙂 I think the music really is the first to attract attention, but poetic lyrics make a song much more complete (and by the way, Fish’s writing for all the 4 first Marillion albums… I don’t know a better example for sung poetry).
Fish is definitely a poet. His work is so descriptive without being cold. One of the better storytellers out there.