Without Those Songs

Would Dylan be just a poet?
Would Bono ever know it
Without those songs?
Would Marley be just a stoner?
Johnny Cash just be a loner
Without those songs?
Would Buddy Holly have disappeared?
Or would Lennon still be here
Without those songs?
What happened in their lives,
What happened in their hearts
To make them wanna write the words
That gonna tear this world apart?
The beauty of their lives
Is when they’re dead and gone
The world still sings along.
When anything went right,
When anything went wrong
They put it in a song.
Would Elvis be just a look,
Or the Rolling Stones be stuck
Without those songs?
Would Sinatra be just a gangster,
Or would Jackson be just a dancer
Without those songs?
Would Madonna be just a face,
Or Nirvana be just a place
Without those songs?
What happened in their lives,
What happened in their hearts
To make them wanna write the words
That gonna tear this world apart?
The beauty of their lives
Is when they’re dead and gone
The world still sings along.
When anything went right,
When anything went wrong
They put it in a song.
When anything went right
When anything went wrong
They put it in a song.
Oh, who would make us see,
And where would we all be
Without those songs?
Without those songs?