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Who writes the words of a song? It's Cyril, silly!
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lyricist
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A lyricist or lyrist is a musician who specializes in writing lyrics . A singer who writes the lyrics to songs is a singer-lyricist . This differentiates from a singer- composer , who composes the song's melody .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As far as I can remember it has always been a hot one, in that season beloved of medieval lyricists. ▪ He often introduces himself to boomer types as the B-string lyricist for that perennial underground cult band, the Grateful ...
Usage examples of lyricist.
The intent of the lyricist, obviously, was to so coarsen the feelings of males who sang the song that the singers could never believe again what most of us believed with all our hearts back then: that women were more spiritual, more sacred than men.
Perched on a shadowy staircase, the lead vocalist and lyricist for the British band called the Cure had been captured by the camera in an implacably Gothic moment.
Today she didn't look much like one of rock's top lyricists and performers.
The lyricists filled the airwaves with metaphor-much of it ludicrous, but no less potent for that.