I Write The Songs Lyrics

Lyric discussion by MatthewPng 

Cover art for I Write The Songs lyrics by Barry Manilow

ALERT PLEASE READ when i first listened to this song, it was beautiful. after all, i'm a fan of old music. so i took the effort to listen to the lyrics, and then i got a partial shock. something was not right about the soothing melody and lyrics. and that's why i decided to warn you who decide to come here to analyse lyrics of songs. call me a fanatic or crazy oversensitive bored fella with mass paranoia...but listen. possibly, it's just a simple song about him writing songs. but my interpretation of this song, and true meanings of good songs always need some interpretation, is that this 'writer' of songs is the devil. rather, lucifer.

i have been alive forever...lucifer was a fallen angel. technically wasn't forever because God was first. but lucifer existed long enough, before the world started, and forever refers to an extremely long period of time. i wrote the very first song...lucifer before fallen, was one of the 'greater' angels and he wrote the first song. the next 2 lines are him declaring it further. let me skip the chorus first. my home lies deep within you...yes he is in your heart because we as men are naturally prone to evil and in giving in to sin we have allowed him to live within us. I've got my own place in your soul...furthers that. Now when i look out through your eyes i'm young again even though i'm very old...lucifer is very old but he's seducing us with the world or in the case his music and taking his place in us. the music makes you dance, doesn't it? sometimes we don't even think...the rhythms and melodies just weave their way into us. gives you spirit to take a chance...to forget rationalism and makes us want to be fun. i wrote some rock and roll so you can move. Music fills your heart...yes emotions taking over...wel that's a fine place to start...ahh can u now see what i'm talking about? Isn't it really a good place for the devil to attack us from, or thru? It's from me, it's for you. His music, to fill you. to lie to you. It's from me, it's for me. See, it's for himself actually...it's stealing you and controlling you.. it's a worldwide symphony. the world is engrossed in it and may not see it. even those who suspect are pushed by worldly pressure to see things the way the world sees it. the symphony is grand...if you've listened to symphonies not just on radios you know its effect. i am music...lucifer created music, he is music in that sense....and he writes the songs...these songs...

the chorus is just furthering all these...

see it from my perspective for a while...i urge you to be careful.

make you fall asleep...just like lullabies? that's even more scary. disarming effects.

So just last week I was relaxing in my car and listening to this song, I actually thought about the lyrics and came up with the exact thing you said in your meaning. Yes according to us the angel previously known as lucifer has been alive forever, and was the worship leader in heaven. Im not sure about the first song part but it could be that he inspired the first song here on earth, or it is possible he did write the first song in heaven. who could prove that though? everything else you said is surely true. And...

@MatthewPng Exactly wrong. It's God, according the songwriter.