[skiltrip]

I too need music to properly gauge it. There's been plenty of awesome songs that if you isolated the lyrics with no music, you'd say, that's just bad!

And there's also plenty of brilliant lyrics that are put to horrible musical arrangements.

It's all about how they work together. Like the word Matter for example. That could be perfect with the music, or it might stand out and be awkward. I agree that sitting alone in the lyrics with no music, it does stand out and feel awkward.