“I think them in French, but they always come out in English. It’s much easier to sing in English because it seems that all the words are more separate; they don’t have to blend. In French just the way you build a phrase, they all have an effect on each other. So when we write lyrics, my favorite part is when you delete the in-betweens so that it’s almost some sort of weird cryptic form of poetry that doesn’t make sense.”
Thomas Mars, of Phoenix, on how he writes lyrics. Elsewhere in the interview he says the Smiths wrote the best lyrics, which intrigued me: If there’s one artist whose lyrics are completely unlike Mars’, it’s Morrissey.
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