lyric
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And if there's one way to get a UK dancefloor going, it's cracking out The Killers' Mr Brightside, and the crowd at the main stage thanked him by chanting back every lyric.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
However, after he made a music video for a friend, then won a competition, he found himself in demand to make animated lyric videos for the likes of James Blunt and Sir Elton John.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
Most spectacularly, the blend of Von Essen’s lyric baritone and Morgan’s assertive soprano gives eternal life to Tommy and Fiona’s numbers.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
That lyric is heard over a minor-key piano in “Love Story,” the last track on the first side.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
Whenever there was a pause in the song she filled it with gasping broken sobs and then took up the lyric again in a quavering soprano.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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