In my opinion...

Roger Waters is the best lyricist , second only to Dylan !

The more I hear him, read about him, the more I admire him as the most fertile and creative brain that ever was in the history of Rock and Roll…

" What shall we use to fill the empty spaces

Where waves of hunger roar

Shall we set out across the sea of faces

In search of more and more applause

Shall we buy a new guitar

Shall we drive a more powerful car

Shall we work right through the night

Shall we get into fights

Leave the lights on

Drop bombs

Do tour of the east

Contract diseases

Bury bones

Break up homes

Send flowers by phone

Take to drink

Go to shrink....."

If this is not poetry then what is?

Rock is a state of mind, born out of extreme emotions, something that “rocks” you out of your inertia. You will agree that even poetry is ‘Rock’, so is art ! If Storm Thorgerson’s work does not shake us  and rock us to the core, if we are not made to sit up when we see a Wharhol then we are probably blind.

I believe that the beauty of a good rock song is that it need not be a song. Strip it  off the layers of musical accompaniments, instruments and yet it rocks you when you just utter the lyrics. Actually I have always had a problem of separating poem from songs… when does a poem become a song? Just through instrumentation and melody? Certainly not! Writings of 2Pac needs no music… It is classified as HipHop, but in my books its still great writing, literature, poetry…Rock! One cannot ‘do’ rock, one can only live ‘Rock’ and feel ‘Rocked’!