lyric
Example Sentences
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Three lyric lines are chanted throughout: “Give the people what they want / When they want / And they wants it all the time.”
The lyrics are simple, unencumbered by a traditional musical’s desire to grab the audience with a catchy tune.
From Salon
Examining a song’s lyrics shorn of the music can highlight the themes that a songwriter such as Johnny Cash or John Darnielle returns to over time.
He is the author of three collections of lyric poems and two book-length narrative poems in heroic couplets that nearly defy summary.
Yet poems aren’t songs, and lyrics can only carry part of a song’s weight and often the smaller part at that.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
