Lyrics-Poems

I think it is interesting that music lyrics are poems. These lyrics have the theme of a journey in common. It seem's to be someones erie? voyage through life. Something that definitely popped out to me was first reading the poems and then listening to them. For example, the Leonard Cohen song--I read it first without hearing the song, and it definitely read as a poem. But, then when I heard it, the singer sang with a monotone voice and it wasn't as enjoyable as when I read it myself. It definitely is different hearing the singer actually sing the song and then reading the lyrics without hearing the song.