Trite lyrics

It doesn’t matter if the lyrics in a song are trite, because the complexity is carried in the singer’s emotion. The same words can be sung in different ways with different emotions, and different meanings as a result. Emotions come through so clearly in a singer’s voice. It is hard to fake, I imagine. I recently saw a performance where the singer started to cry. I listen to a song now, and I take the lyrics and repeat them in my own head, bastardizing them from their musical context. They don’t sound the same. But when I listen to them as lyrics in the song, they take on a whole new meaning. That meaning is the unique emotional state of the singer. In a moment, I understand how important these words are to them. That understanding is communicated by the pitch, rhythm, and volume of voice, it seems.