We songwriters often assume that if a song isn’t landing emotionally, the problem must be the lyric. We spend hours revising, tightening phrases, searching for stronger rhymes, and scratching entire sections only to try accommodating them again in a later version. But sometimes there comes a point where no changes seem to actually improve the song. This is our signal that we might be tweaking the wrong element, and the lyric isn’t the problem. We might be asking lyrics to do a job that actually belongs to the melody.