Songwriter vs. Lyricist

Songwriternoun

(music) A musician who composes songs; including writing the song's lyrics and creating a melody or tune for the song.

Songwriternoun

a composer of words or music for popular songs

Songwriter

A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions and writes lyrics for songs. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the latter term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre and film scoring, but is also associated writing and composing the original musical composition or musical bed.

Lyricistnoun

A person who writes the lyrics of a song.

Lyricistnoun

a person who writes the words for songs

Lyricist

A lyricist or lyrist is a songwriter who writes lyrics—words for songs—as opposed to a composer, who writes the song's music which may include but not limited to the melody, harmony, arrangement and accompaniment.