Sentences with word «lyric»

Ed received a buldging envelope full of tape recordings and lyric sheets for the various albums to come in his post box in John Street in York PA in 1989.

And Oden displays a keen eye for the comic and lyric trouvailles to be reaped from them.

The Song of Songs gives exquisite lyric expression to the beauty and delight of human love.

The «we» of the lyric probably means «we Europeans,» or «we moderns.»

The variety of voices is heightened by the different dialogue styles Paton uses: the lyric, almost biblical way he renders the Zulu dialect; the cliché - ridden language of the commercially oriented, English - speaking community; the chanting rhythms and repetition of the native «chorus»; the clear, logical, terse style of the educated black priest who helps Kumalo find Absalom; the cynical, humorous tone of chapter 23, a satire on justice.

We remember Montague as a wonderful lyric poet who produced poems that will be long remembered, all of them sharpened by a sense of loss that is both personal and cultural.

Stories always project a «world,» and, in contrast to lyric poetry, a very public world.

the Greek lyric poet Tyrtaeus wrote, «The man who risks his life in battle has the best chance of saving it; the one who flees to save it is the most likely to lose it.»

This is arguably the most controversial lyric in modern worship.

I've often watched in services as my fellow worshippers have chosen not to sing certain words, while the Presbyterian Church in America dropped the song from its hymnal after Townend and Getty denied its request to change the lyric to «The love of God was magnified».

It seems he was not unfamiliar with the need for deconstruction in the lyric of his song «The Tide is Turning».

When the lyric and the melody match the music, and you throw in a bunch of luck and good timing then something like «Trojans» can happen, I guess.»

The once - lowly lyric has eclipsed the larger poetic genres — while being stripped of the things that made it lyrical.

The lyric «You're so open - minded that your brains leaked out» was always reminding me of what churches were telling me; that based on the Bible almost everything we do outside of what the church teaches and does, is evil.

Best misheard lyric I've ever heard was «fly like a (old - timey word for an AA)» instead of «fly like an eagle.»

An image of the jar was projected on the screens while we listened to Radiohead's «The Tourist,» with the lyric, «Hey man, slow down,» projected over the image of the jar.

McMillan later explained that he didn't have a problem with Crowder changing the line, but he did feel the lyric had been misunderstood.

The lyric is actually a reference to 1 Samuel 7, when Samuel, after relying on God to defeat the Philistines, used a stone to memorialize the battle.

«A lyric like Go, then, earthly fame and treasure / Come, disaster, scorn and pain / In thy service, pain is pleasure / With thy favor, loss is gain (from Henry Lyte's «Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken») would never make it onto Christian radio.

And probably frantically cross-referencing the lyric booklet with some obscure Russian folklore.

One has only to crack open the album's lyric booklet to see Daly and his fellow lyricist Smith struggling with and yearning for the love of God.

Someone has an agenda behind every lyric that they write.

The Calgary Herald «s Dec. 24, 1983, edition was a reflection of its time: Jeanne Sauvé was appointed Canada's first female Governor General; retailer Waterbed Warehouse opened its third local big box store; and a Vancouver janitor was en route to Parliament Hill to perform an anti-Trudeau (Pierre Elliott) version of «Twelve Days of Christmas,» complete with the lyric «five metric morons.»

This is a lyric from a song by the rock band Smart Beta.

What's that classic lyric in the Who's «Won't Get Fooled Again?»

Troye Sivan released his new single «Bloom» on Wednesday night along with a lyric video featuring a lithe, CGI version of the singer twisting in the air in the middle of an industrial building with various types of vegetation growing insi... Read

You may find that like the Tom Petty song lyric that «the waiting is the hardest part.»

With every beat and song lyric, I know that I'm transforming myself, with Pure Barre's help.

When West claimed on Twitter that Swift approved the lyric, the singer's rep quickly issued a statement claiming Swift never heard the song and warned the rapper about using a «misogynistic message.»

Take the lyric «When you smell like sex you don't need cologne» or «I don't care what you think, Stank Dick is a good thing!»

«At no time have I authorized the use of «Despacito» or a lyric change to promote any political agenda, especially in the middle of the deplorable situation that Venezuela, a country that I love very much, is experiencing,» Fonsi said in a statement emailed to Business Insider on Monday evening.

His fate is spelled out, lyric by lyric — But now he's got bad credit, can't buy a car / Can't rent an apartment, times is hard / And when the phone rings, do you think it's Vanessa?

The lyric speaks to multiple yearnings: for a lover who doesn't return your affections, for a popular chain restaurant without locations in your homeland.

They were negotiating with Warner Music over the rights to publish and annotate the company's lyrics on their site, having already made similar deals with all the other key publishers, and thereby dodging a serious legal threat to the site's business model.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP)-- A New Zealand judge said Eminem's lyrics «You own it, you better never let it go» turned out to be prophetic after ruling a political party breached copyright by using a song similar to Eminem's «Lose Yourself» in its campaign ads.

That fall, Moghadam had overheard the other cofounders talking about how the site wasn't doing as well as it could in search results for pop lyrics.

Late last year GoldieBlox again earned notice across the social sphere, this time with a video featuring three girls playing with its toys while singing alternative lyrics to the Beastie Boys song «Girls.»

Probably the most striking thing about the song is its lyrics, an uncompromising and borderline violent rejection of «conceited and arrogant» oppressors who are holding Catalonia back.

Arguably no performer connects on a more profound personal level with fans: Songs like «Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)» and «Run the World (Girls)» are anthems of female empowerment, and as her music has grown more complex and daring, her lyrics have become increasingly intimate, exploring themes like motherhood, marriage and sexuality with refreshing candor.

If Muse's powerful lyrics strike a burning chord deep within about your work situation, it's probably also time to get your resume in order.

According to unconfirmed statistics hidden in the lyrics of Air Canada's hold music, business travel is at an all - time high.

And he tweeted some lyrics from the rapper Emininem expressing the feeling that what most normal people talk about is «gibberish.»

Although neither song explicitly mentions Brexit or Trump, the themes obviously influenced Jagger's lyrics.

(You probably know the lyrics to the chorus: «I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones, enough to make my systems blow.

For instance, McCartney was organized, logging his lyrics and chord changes in a notebook; Lennon was always searching for scrap paper.

Finally, it's probably an incredibly dumb business model to be doing a lyrics site that hopes for Google traffic in a time when Google, like Bing, is moving toward providing direct answers.

FreeTime lets parents set time limits on how long kids can use the Echo, filter out explicit song lyrics, and add educational or kid - friendly content to the device.

Searching for lyrics no longer brings Rap Genius pages.

«Soulful lyrics and heart fulfilling music make those cute little puppies happier than anything else.

More than in any other musical form, hip - hop artists like to name - check their favourite luxury brands in their lyrics — booze, cars, restaurants, jewelry.