Why this word is great
SONGSMITH — [Noun] A crafter of songs, whose work implies the patient, artisanal shaping of lyrical and melodic wholes. From song (a short poem or set of words set to music) + smith (a worker or maker). Unlike “songwriter,” a utilitarian modern label, or “composer,” which leans toward purely musical architecture, “songsmith” evokes a poet-forger welding word to tune. It is the faint scratch of pencil on paper before dawn, the patient sanding of a rough syllable to fit its melodic groove, and the quiet, satisfying click of a complex feeling settling into the simple frame of a three-minute tune. The smith works at the anvil of silence, not to fill it with noise, but to shape from it a vessel that can hold a specific, human ache.