lyric

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The lyric, essentially one long sentence, closes by saying that ignoring problems “is fine if you’re a child or aim to remain as one,” and the track ends the moment he sings the final word.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

“We’ll get by with a little help from our friends,” Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, wrote in a guest book at Chequers on Thursday, referencing the Beatles lyric while visiting her British counterpart.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 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

The character, fixated by a particular hat in his painting, sings "all it has to be is good", the lyric quoted in the co-stars' Instagram caption.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 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