that's odd, I was just talking to Maria today about the same thing .. how music for the most part should be story telling, as it's origins are based in that, from a time before writing, maybe speech, and a way of getting a story across to people who for the most part couldn't read or write. The music ( and dance ) would have to tell the story, it took people places. I think music still does that .. but I think now there's so many people telling their stories, it becomes more of a personal thing .. if that sounds right, i mean everyone wants to put to music their breakup with the girl/boyfriend, how f"*ked up the world is and how crap the government are, but they're all telling the same story, now with the muliti media situation saturation becomes a problem, it loses it's impact for the most part. I'm not saying it's a bad thing and I'm not saying music no longer talks to people, but I think it's somehow lost it's story telling impact in some ways.
As for lyrics, not sure that making sense is much of an issue .. it's where the story in the song's taking you, if it's fantasy, then fantasy words are fine, made up words / sounds are fine in a song if it's going with the flow .. I mean check out the lyrics to I am the walrus !!! even drunk that makes no sense ! but it speaks to people in some way .. there's thousands of songs out there that are "out there " on the lyric front, but are great songs.
Well that's about it for now ;-) got a home to go to in an hour or so, and got a new guy in for the night shift, so have to run him through a few things.