I've always wanted to write songs but I can never think of lyrics. Should I start thinking about it as poetry and writing poems to turn into lyrics?
i'm not sure. that might work but that's not the way i would do it. what i would do is just open up a blank text file and go bonkers every day for several years, then when the time is right, try to write songs again, and make it a rule that you have to come up with the melody and lyrics exactly the same time. it is not 2 separate things. it is 1 thing ('song')