OK, I'll play seeing I made the comment...
I've always thought that publishing lyrics out of musical context is a bad idea. They rarely "work" out there on their own.
No problem with people seeking specific help with a specific problem they may be facing in this forum, but JUST putting lyrics up and saying "what do you think of my lyrics?" when there's no music to go with it smacks of the need for continual positive reinforcement that is the bane of the Singing "Can I sing? No, really, can I sing? Be nice to me, I think need a hug.." Forum... That's just attention seeking.
What do I think of your lyrics? Record them to the music and I'll tell you. Right now they just look like lyrics and could go either way... They're not poetry, there's meant to be music there too.
The "workshopping" comment is about people who don't appear to know what they want to do and openly solicit lyrical feedback - if that floats your boat, then me ranting here isn't going to stop you, but a bit of confidence wouldn't go astray. How do you not know what you want to say?
I feel roughly the same way about people workshopping the music itself - but that's a greyer area and not many people actually do it anyway. That's what I meant about "owning" what you do. It's the vision thang...
You're here, presumably, because you're a recording "artist" in some stage of development and, also presumably, have some idea of what it is you're trying to achieve and you want to learn how to record it. IMO, it's not the "How to write a song" forum - it's a forum to discuss songwriting, such as is occurring the thread in which I made the comment, and if anyone kicks this thread along, will happen here as well..
In your journey, you'll get feedback on lyrics, and music, and recording here on the various forums, and you'll do what you will with that feedback, but I think if you don't know what you want to do, if you don't have that vision, then why are you here? What is it you're recording?
Workshopping what you do, artistically, just bends everyone back towards the mean, the average, rather than the exceptional ... and the great artists just did what they did, and just do what they do, and people follow... or not... and that pushes everyone along.
I can't imagine Greg lobbing in here and saying "I can't think of how to make these words work? Help me!" Same with heatmiser... or RayC... or fatfleet... or fritzthegirl... or any number of others that hang around here, because they know what they're trying to do... and they just get on with it... Pretty sure most of the people we pay homage to as great rock (or whatever) artists, didn't workshop... they knew... or they didn't know and didn't care..
And even though the song I'm trying to write at the moment has a desparate structural lyrical problem I need to sort out, I'm not going to seek solutions here, because in the process of sorting it out and banging my head trying to nut it out, the song will grow and perhaps end up somewhere else entirely, and that is sort of what it's all about for me...
None of that may make any sense to you, so I say in the biggest letters possible ... IMHO & YMMV!
/rant