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“These Days” comes next in the track listing, with the beautiful lyric: We are young despite the years/ we are old despite the times.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
That prompted the lyric, "She's from Texas, I can tell."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
The lyric is built almost entirely from humble, monosyllabic words: a warm smile, a soft cheek, a laugh that wrinkles the nose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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
I could imagine people bundling up and waiting to hear a band whose every lyric they could sing or enduring a snowy Super Bowl for a team they'd followed since childhood.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Some of her hardest-hitting lyrics also make people wonder if she’s speaking to anyone in particular.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026
Last week, it was accused of stealing lyrics by music company Reservoir.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
The lyrics to Dolly Parton's Welsh version of her hit Jolene were uploaded mistakenly to Spotify in Irish.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
He also claimed Strange also put some of Eminem’s handwritten lyrics up for sale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
She shares quotes from famous novels, random facts about nature, or sometimes even song lyrics.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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