lyric
Example Sentences
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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.
Edwards said, referencing a lyric from Cole’s “The Christmas Song.”
From Los Angeles Times
The first thing Seyfried recorded in studio was an a cappella song for a scene late in the film — the lyric is “How can I but love my dear faithful children?”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
