Songs are Poems too... right?

Rap, country, pop, rock, jazz, alternative, and literally so many more genres of music exist. Sometimes we listen for the beat, the instruments, or the bass (if you're in a frat). However, a lot of people listen to music for the lyrics, which are basically just poems set to music, right?

Some of the most famous songs (besides classical music) are noted for their clever lyrics or meaningful messages, such as Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. Bohemian Rhapsody covers multiple different genres of music within one song and each has specific lyrics associated with it. The introduction is very ethereal, with a high-pitched chorus and little background music as the speaker contemplates his life and what is happening to him.

The interesting thing about music, and the idea of poems combined with music, is that the music can convey emotions that the words themselves often cannot adequately capture, thus adding another dimension to the singer or speaker’s message. Unlike solely written poetry, the speaker can convey exactly how the poem is meant to be read by their inflection and tone when singing the song – although the level of permitted interpretation changes, it is a specific choice of the poet/singer/speaker/whatever to enunciate their message precisely.

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go, little high, little low
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me

Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, ooh, didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters
Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine, body's aching all the time
Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth

This song, in just the first few lines (out of very, VERY many), is obviously written as poetry and not prose. Even from looking at it, it appears to be a poem and one with multiple parts at that. There is so much emotion, internal distress, and pain conveyed in these lyrics through the various methods employed, such as rhyme, diction, and repetition of “Mama,” referencing the pain and limbic guilt he feels.

Alternately, you can have rappers who make millions of dollars with their clever puns, punchlines, and rhyming abilities- all while insulting another rapper's ability to do the same. Read: Remy Ma vs. Nicki Minaj (NSFW).

Rap is so interesting to me because although the content often focuses on more ...explicit topics... the rhymes are often so fast, clever, and even biting - they require a lot of thought and dedication to write. The rapper Future has even commented that he's a big fan of Shakespeare.

Overall I think that people can really relate to poetry more if they think about songs as poems set to music too - don't you have a favorite lyric?