lyric
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And if there's one way to get a UK dancefloor going, it's cracking out The Killers' Mr Brightside, and the crowd at the main stage thanked him by chanting back every lyric.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
As to who Perry is without the pain that shaped so much of her life, a question she poses in a lyric on her new record, she pauses.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
That lyric is heard over a minor-key piano in “Love Story,” the last track on the first side.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
The lyric, "I'll cry my eyes violet", refers to the star's famously entrancing eyes; and the line "what could you possibly get for the girl who has everything" namechecks one of her films.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
The instinct passed through me in the form of a word, a bold lyric, strong, declarative.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - Middle School
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