It Is You

By Lisa-marie Lyle

The union of music and lyrics is usually a happy one: both partners bring the necessary fulfillment to each other and a beautiful song is like a lifelong relationship – two entities bound perfectly together. But the relationship is not exclusive. Many times one can live a full and successful life without the other.

This collection illustrates that principle. If you don’t know Lisa-marie Lyle, you might read her work, feel the underlying musicality and think “that should be a song”. And you would be right, because sometimes it is.
Is this then a collection of lyrics? Maybe in some ways. Maybe some of the poems that follow are the skeletons of songs yet unborn, or are waiting to be reborn. But it’s an artificial distinction to separate a lyric from a poem. There is no difference. One is enhanced by music, one lives unfettered in its own world. Or both worlds. If you hear the music as you read, so much the better.

This collection skips freely in time, from year to year. If there is a theme, it is the theme of honesty. Sometimes bold, sometimes introspective, sometimes raw ... you won’t leave these pages without knowing that you have experienced something very real, something without artifice.
These are not poems written for the sake of being written. They are downloads from the heart, as direct and untreated as they can be by someone who has lived the emotions of which she writes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: subKultur
• Release date: Dec 2, 2012
• ISBN: 9781291229585

Lisa-marie Lyle

Lisa-marie Lyle is a singer-songwriter based in Coleraine, Northern Ireland who spent her formative years in South Africa before returning in the 1990s. A prolific writer and multi-instrumentalist, Lisa's work is characterised by its immediacy and truth: Lisa writes to capture and journalise her life.

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About the author

Lisa-marie Lyle is a singer-songwriter based in Coleraine, Northern Ireland who spent her formative years in South Africa before returning in the 1990s. A prolific writer and multi-instrumentalist, Lisa's work is characterised by its immediacy and truth: Lisa writes to capture and journalise her life.

She says: Music is me. I write happy, I write sad. I write about life – things I see and things I feel. It's my way of releasing everything built up inside me. It's a journey along the road of life.

The union of music and lyrics is usually a happy one: both partners bring the necessary fulfillment to each other and a beautiful song is like a lifelong relationship – two entities bound perfectly together. But the relationship is not exclusive. Many times one can live a