I'm trying to work on an original with flowing lyrics--think of something with more of a melancholy feeling than a pop/rock one. But to get the words to not sound stilted/choppy, I keep using these oddball note lengths, and they don't start/stop on the beat in a particularly orderly way so far. I'm sure I can make the starts of individual phrases fall on a beat, of course, provided it doesn't make a weirdly short/long pause after the previous phrase.... I can't help wondering, though, if this is ok or if it's just going to end up being a big mess that doesn't work, especially once I start getting the instrumental more fleshed out....