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Originally Posted by rick-slo
Put a melody to the following and see if it makes it into the top forty.
"Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,
And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?
The transient pleasures as a vision seem,
And yet we think the greatest pain's to die.
How strange it is that man on earth should roam,
And lead a life of woe, but not forsake
His rugged path; nor dare he view alone
His future doom which is but to awake."
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To clarify, my point wasn't that songwriters should write like Shakespeare. It was that the opinion that some songwriters are at his level is hard for me to swallow.