A lyric is a start, but you’ll need a melody before you can call it a song

- A lyric is a great start, but you'll need a melody before you can call it a song. One of the things that I run into a lot, as someone who listens to and critiques songs is I get a lot of submissions that ask me to review their song, and it's only a lyric. To be perfectly honest, no one in the music business is looking for lyrics, they need things to be spelled out. In order for it to be a song, that lyric has to be put to a melody, and that melody and lyric need to be recorded in a form that people in the industry will understand as a song.