The Way Lyrics Tie to the Music

Author's Note: The purpose is to explain how the two poems "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Field Below" tie to their music to create songs.

In the song "Big Yellow Taxi", the music and the notes and the way it's sung makes it sound happy, but if you actually listen to the lyrics, you'd think about how sad the meaning actually is. I think that the singer should've made the music sound more like the meaning, because now it just sounds misleading. Plus, is doesn't make much sense to make a song about something sad sound happy. On the other hand, the song "Field Below", the music and sound actually matches the meaning. The music sounds sad and like it's missing something, and actually, you might not think that if you heard the music without words, but the music by itself would give you the impression that it was sad. That makes a lot more sense to me.