Lyrics

Lyrics are the sung text of a popular music or music theater song performed by a singer or singers that provide the cognitive meaning to a song. The history of lyrics writing demonstrates different approaches that have been taken to the composition of lyrics and their relationship with the song. In some cases, the composer and lyricist are separate, but in others, both are written by an artist known as a songwriter. If the songwriter is also a performer, they are known as singer-songwriters. Lyrics are different from libretti, a term describing the text of an opera.