It is the total package of the music. It is can be the lyrics, it can be the songwriting, it can be the context of the music itself or the way that fits into the package of an album or EP. It is always, always, the reverberation of a musical concept or expression of a persons life in the form of musical notes that moves me. I find it to be a beautiful thing. The thing with listening to lyrics as opposed to reading them is that you lose the passion of the voice, the inflection and whatever other emotion is conveyed the the singing itself. It is how I can relate to a particular piece of music in the context of the song having been written, or my life at the time, or anything else really. It's hard to explain but maybe that has given you an idea of what I'm trying to convey.

I can listen to anything from All Hail West Texas to this to this to this and get some sort of emotion out of it.

I find those are some of my favorite. Simply because I can listen to them later and recall the scenes from the movie or tv show. That and the music itself is pretty good and fitting for whatever scene it was made for. During the movie itself though I'm wrapped up in everything, and pay about as much attention to the music as I do the background.

If it's well done then I can appreciate it. But that's easier said than done. Something like Halloween, Tron, The Godfather, or songs being used in a movie such as Fight Club work really well for doing exactly what you brought up.