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

The dynamic singer delivered every lyric with his whole body as he frenetically tapped the buttons of his brightly colored accordion, doing his best to make the squeezebox sound like an electric guitar.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 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

I am an avid reader of all signs, and I find that in the historical markers the prose of statehood reaches its glorious best, and most lyric.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck