I Write The Songs Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Showguy 

Cover art for I Write The Songs lyrics by Barry Manilow

To all of you Bible thumpers out there who think this son is about Satan...congratulations! You are 100% WRONG. Bruce Johnston of The Beach Boys composed this song. He said it was about of where music comes from. In his eyes, it comes from GOD.

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@Showguy Thank you for those words! :) Finally, someone who actually agrees with me. "I write the songs" is about music, it is written from the PoV of music as if it were anthropomorphized, and it talks about the things music can do to make our lives better. Music has indeed been alive forever - it has been an art form since donkeys' years ago. It wrote the very first song - goes without saying. The line "I am music and I write the songs" couldn't be clearer - it is Music itself speaking here. Bruce Johnston did a great...