Apart from reading the main /lit/ canon for well-roundedness, what reading suggestions does /lit/ have for songwriters? I think I saw a similar question a while back but it contained certain details which elicited mostly japery and memery, so hopefully I didn't say anything to trigger too many kys's.
Also, favorite musical settings of poems to switch it up from "favorite lyricists." I would pick Dictherliebe, which /mu/ might consider a pleb choice (just guessing), but that's cheating because I don't speak German. So in English it would probably be Songs of Travel by Ralph Vaugh Williams (pic related).
*Dichterliebe. argh
and * Vaughan....jesus...i'm tired or retarded.
It doesn't matter who you read as a songwriter—first and foremost YOU just have to write so much that you develop your lyrical voice
Meanwhile just read ANYTHING and absorb ideas, possible allusions and lyrical ideas, etc
t. Lyricist of 7 years (only 3 of which involve making good lyrics)