Writing lyrics is an unusual craft, especially for a lyricist who is not a musician. Although lyrics can be poetic, just as a poem might be lyrical, the words of some lyricists are designed to survive alone in linear form to a reader. Of course, it is wondrous when such a lyric, one that can hold its own on what was once blank page, is suddenly imbued with music, transforming the words and music into a song. This is a transformation that the non-musical...