Songs are musical poems. The lyrics bring up different memories based on personal experiences. The music guides memories to a certain genre. Using "Only Love" by Jordan Smith, I will demonstrate how the impression of lyrics is influenced by tempo.

Without music, lyrics are poems that can be analyzed for themes. The first line includes the word "we," which inferences two situations: omnipresent "we," or there are two people in the song. The first verse indicates right off the bat that something is wrong. The pre-chorus is a clever connection to the ending of the first verse: "we can wish until the well runs dry" and "sky… runs out of every single shooting star." Both illustrate the concept of hopelessness. The theme of this song is acceptance, as shown in the line, "see us for who we are." The repetition of "if only there was only love" indicates the author's suggestion that love is the only way people can be accepted for who they are.