I ask this question because today I find myself with a made-up tune stuck in my head. I was reading a novel, when I read this little poem which is the refrain to a Grammy Award winning song–in the world of the novel, that is. So I made up a tune to go with it, and now it’s stuck.
While I don’t remember doing that before, I have attempted to compose tunes for other song lyrics, and can’t read certain Psalms silently without putting them to music–ususally music someone esle composed and I have sung.
But maybe in addition to being a singer and a reader, I’m weird. So I ask you, can you read song lyrics without wanting to sing them?