lyric

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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

“When people go around talking to God, it always ends in tears” is absolutely the most Bono lyric, not taking himself too seriously but also still being completely, 100% sincere.

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2026

Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, called the lyric “completely disrespectful…to every single individual that has ever stood up and fought for our freedoms.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

Asked how she finds time for so many projects, she reached for a lyric from her smash track "365."

From Barron's • Jan. 24, 2026

Yet Athens had a coruscating tradition of rhetoric, lyric drama, and philosophy.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann