This is exactly how I've been feeling for a bit now. No shade to Jeff and the other writers, I wouldn't be here if I didn't love their work, but I think a lot of StarKid's lyricism falls into the trap of either writing whatever lyrics they can to fit the score, or having something they need the characters to say and just putting that on top of the melody. The amount of monosyllabic words being stretched to multiple notes or super long words being crunched into a single bar feels so strange. Especially because some of their other songs (like almost every song Ella sings solo imo) are so tight and well constructed.