What’s the difference between poetry and song lyrics? The following are song lyrics. Is it also a poem?

Before you turn your heart away
Listen now to what I say
’cause I’ve been holdin’ fire for you
And you won’t see my point of view

I  been workin’ in the hot sun all day
I work my fingers to the bone
To be a sparkle in your eye
But I never qualify

Before you turn your heart away
Hear me out, hear what I say
’cause I have built this shrine for you
And you won’t let me see you through

To tell you ’bout the cold December nights
The wind chilled me to the bone
Carving pillars to your life
But you don’t see things right

…..So take your foolish heart away
…..take your foolish heart away

……….Things look different in the light
……….Different from what they seem
……….I guess it’s all a crazy dream
……….‘cuz it was nothin’ like my life

Take your foolish heart away
Don’t turn back, don’t start to say
’cause I have got a job to do
I haven’t got the time for you

Workin’ in the hot sun all day
I’m breaking rocks and grinding stone
To carve you from my life
To get back to the light

….Take your foolish heart away
….Take your foolish heart away
….Take your foolish heart away
….Take your foolish heart away

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How is my long time friend. May
I say, you have had me around
the bend to no end
Taken drugs to deal with you
You haven’t won yet you
silly fool
Oh, close yes I have come to deaths
hand but I came back guess that was
the plan
We play tug-of war you and I
You pull me one way and I pull back
the other. Hoping and fighting to stay
one more day
We dance to. You dance very well,
embracing me like you do
You are the blanket that covers me but you
don’t keep me warm
I am as cold as the Atlantic
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It’s there, patiently waiting
The loneliness slowly skulking
Secretly entering the corner of my eyes
I try not to blink. Please don’t blink.
The tears won’t stop.
Breathe
Breathe
I can do this!
I been through worst then this
But at the moment comparison doesn’t come close
I should know better, I’m stronger then this-
Breathe
Breathe
Waiting, I keep waiting
Every word is a knife cutting me deeply
The layers peeling like Spanish onions
The layers uncovering like Russian Dolls
Breathe
Breathe
I can do this; of course I can do this!
I have been through this before:
13- Daddy left
20- Mama left
Now am older, wiser, but some how
The pain is stronger, the tears unstoppable
I don’t know whose next?
I don’t want promises, love, and peace
I want to fight so that way when you leave,
The pain, will be numb, dead-
Breathe
Breathe
Somehow between reminding myself to breathe
I forgot to live.

The sun can shine bright
But deep inside lives cruelty,
Which can suppress anything temptress
Of this aristocracy state that I long for,
When every good turns into tyranny.
Oh! How I wish, I could help men,
Face life because we are living in hell.
When we uses guns and rage
To control and possess what belongs not to us.
Oh greed, we are playing gods.
We leave our mothers, daughters, brothers, sisters,
Wives and sons to the hands of death;
Whom only smiles, and sings the more the merrier.
Rub his hands together in anticipation
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Although I know you meant it
but couldn’t live like that and eventually started
throwing up stuff we didn’t put there.

Laments nearer the barrel imagine your presence,
but you are gathered within a residence of rented music,
biding your time till your father’s trial. Even you don’t know

if he committed the atrocity alleged. All those boys, all those clocks,
how come nobody saw? And if they did, who exaggerated?
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