# Is the recording an "instrumental" if it never had words?

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/is-the-recording-an-instrumental-if-it-never-had-words/466812
**Category:** MusicBrainz
**Created:** [March 8, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/is-the-recording-an-instrumental-if-it-never-had-words/466812 "2020-03-08T16:29:44Z")
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### Author: ![IvanDobsky](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/ivandobsky/32/11785_2.png) [@IvanDobsky](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/IvanDobsky)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/is-the-recording-an-instrumental-if-it-never-had-words/466812/29 "2020-03-11T14:49:20Z")

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I can also see a reason I have never spotted [No Lyrics] before. If you are looking at a Works page it shows a bizarre “zxx” that I previously assumed was “The World”.

Can we get a better abbreviation? Or put [No Lyrics] up on that Works page? [Ozric Tentacles - Works - MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5629ca87-9086-48c4-8dc4-b4a966c45067/works)

 ![image](https://community.metabrainz.org/uploads/default/original/3X/9/8/98664a6851c2c713dc5f35eac4e0a181fdda3721.png)

Isn’t it kinda weird to put three letter abbreviations in here, but then title the column so wide as “Lyrics Language”? Doesn’t that title just let us put back the actual language here?

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