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How long of a song is this for? Or is this like Fall Out Boy's single-stanza? Expand it more so that you create a connection between the listener and the lyrics, so that it creates interest.

how much grammar do you take into consideration when you talk?

statement that someone uses music theory while composing without doing it consciously is either nonsense, or trite. music theory is a large large body of statements and propositions regarding various things that are called musical. there is no chance that you can use music theory without knowing it (that you do it) . you can, nevertheless, use various musical patterns composing that you constructed some time before applying music theory to your composition, but these are not themselves something you could call 'music theory' or 'things that use music theory', since they are part of your instinctive writing process. these are blocks of compositional practice, but not music theory. music theory is a body of statements and propositions, you don't use these things unconsciously. you can use musical patterns derived from applying these statements, hypotheses ( which, of course is conscious) in your composition instinctively, but it's not the same as using music theory to construct these patterns. on another hand, if the argument goes that we, nolens volens, use musical theory, since it explains how we construct patterns, hear sound and so on and it is hardwired in us, it too assumes that theory somehow is the thing it tries to explain, which, of course, is nonsense. so either we use musical theory consciously, or we don't use it at all. and, most probably, use only some bits of musical theory, since i doubt we can use all of it without overloading.