Wait... is it confirmed that Myung has wrote lyrics for a song(s) on this album?
Apparently so. Some user met Jordan a few months(?) ago at a benefit concert and Jordan told him that there will be JM lyrics to several songs. How many I have no clue, but I personally don't see it being higher than two because JP loves to write lyrics and I'm assuming JLB contributed lyrically as well.
Well, now I know how rumors get started.
JR confirmed that JM wrote lyrics on this album, but, as far as I can tell, any statements that it was to more than one song, let alone "several songs" are just rumor.
The confirmation and the idea that it might be "multiple songs" came from exactly the same place. Namely, one of our number who met him at a recent event. Can't remember what the event was, precisely, but the number's no more dubious than the confirmation that JM's written a word in the first place.
EDIT: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=22053.msg867186#msg867186 Here you go.
In this case, rumours get started by first-hand sources. Not chinese whispers.
Not to say that there's not a chance that Mebert could be embellishing - "some bloke off the internet" wouldn't exactly hold the same amount of water as an academic source - but he's been here for a while, he's a trusted member, and I can't see him making things up only to inevitably be proven wrong five months down the line. I'd be more inclined to trust him than Blabbermouth.
I'm not doubting Mebert's account. To quote that post you linked to:
He said one thing he could tell me is that Myung wrote lyrics for songs (I believe he said songs, plural -- as in multiple songs).
There's some doubt there as to whether the plural "songs" is accurate. Mebert may have misheard or misremembered, or JR may have misspoke. Regardless, Mebert did the repsonsible thing and highlighted that the mulitiple songs thing is not certain. Yet, in the retelling it's gone from "I believe he said songs, plural" to "definitely multiple songs" to "several songs".
In my haste to jump on the "several songs" thing, though, I overlooked this quote from Samara, with which I agree strongly:
How many I have no clue, but I personally don't see it being higher than two because JP loves to write lyrics and I'm assuming JLB contributed lyrically as well.
Personally, I'd be willing to place a wager that Myung only wrote lyrics for one song.
But only a
very small wager.