[Quiet Man Cometh]

Poetry was nearly always written aloud, or at least literature was, for the simple fact that many people were illiterate. To encounter any form one literature many people had to be read too. Going to the book Eats, Shoots, And Leaves, the author (who's name I can never seem to remember) comments than punctuation was originally used in texts that were meant to be read aloud. Reading a story in one's head didn't start until literacy became more widespread.

I tend to find music much more direct than poetry. It might be because I've grown up reading poety and listening to music, to that I'm more inclined to examine a poem because I have the words infront of me while in a song they float by and I don't have the time to let my mind catch up with them before the rest of the moves by.

I find that the songs in which I most appreiate the lyrics are those that have minimal "interferance" from the instruments. Songs like "Bother" by Stone Sour, "Halleluja" by Leonard Cohen, use only minimal intruments besides the voice and that's where to me they lean more towards poetry.