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Sway Dasafo, a pioneering British Ghanaian rapper known for his lyric storytelling and championing of British music, has died.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

I was already writing songs, but when we met, he gave me a lyric and I straightaway put a tune to it, and we didn’t even discuss that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Give your brain a workout: What’s an 11-letter “Enya hit with the repeated lyric ‘Sail away, sail away, sail away’ ”?

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

There are lyric sheets involved, and some players are laughing as if struggling with a task set by a self-proclaimed comedy best man at a wedding.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Finally, among all types of song, it is the song created by lyric poets that I find most compelling.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

Dore-Smith said that the star had visited his Eastcastle Street coffee shop "a couple of years ago", and that they put his song lyrics on their blackboard during his last concerts in London.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

The serious and solemn mood is reinforced by Beck’s lyrics, which traffic in archetypes—and, occasionally, clichés—from breakup albums past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The story was previously adapted into a 2011 film before being reworked as a musical with music and lyrics by PigPen Theatre Company, a book by Rick Elice and directed by Jessica Stone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

The Breeders’ catalog is full of singalong possibilities thanks to their fondness for lyrics that aren’t words.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

I’m actually wearing my tracksuit and standing in the water, thinking of those lyrics about love going to waste.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali