: Re: How do we tell someone how to sing a lyric? People usually use a musical sheet to tell how a song should be sung, but when you read a lyric you have no idea how a song should be sung

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Lyrics are not lyrics until they are set to music. At which point, they are sung to the music. They appear on the sheet music. Like so:

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Alternatively, the lyrics can be placed not over sheet music, but over guitar chords, like so:

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Basically, you superimpose some form of music notation over the lyrics. If there's no music, they're not lyrics.

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