", followed by a guitar riff that is unusually dark and heavy for Edguy's standards and is very similar to some Judas Priest riffs.

Following this participation Kiske sang another duet, entitled " Judas At The Opera ", together with Tobias Sammet ( vocalist of the band Edguy and founder of the Avantasia project ) on Edguy's Superheroes EP.

Some bands have even written their own imaginary stories, like Rhapsody of Fire's Emerald Sword Saga and The Dark Secret Saga, Iced Earth's Something Wicked Saga or Avantasia by Edguy's Tobias Sammet.

Hellfire Club revealed Edguy's interest in experimenting within music by integrating an orchestra into the production.

Prior to Edguy's Theater of Salvation, Tobias was also their bassist and keyboardist.

Mercer's lyrics are characterized by an unerring ear for rhythmic nuances, a puckish sense of humor expressed in language with a colloquial flair.

Other examples of his readiness for both warlike and unwarlike subjects are lyrics celebrating his brother's heroic exploits as a Babylonian mercenary and lyrics sung in a rare meter ( Sapphic Ionic in minore ) in the voice of a distressed girl, " Wretched me, who share in all ills!

The song features the lyrics, " If I'm Obelix, you are my boulder ".

Many American folk songs are identical to British songs in arrangements, but with new lyrics, often as parodies of the original material.

The lyrics are:

The lyrics for the " Alabama Song " and another song, the " Benares Song " are in English ( albeit specifically idiosyncratic English ) and are performed in that language even when the opera is performed in its original ( German ) language.

The rhythms are influenced by the American rap scene, and the lyrics are often about crime, drugs, money, women and many criminal things.

" He commented that the lyrics are " breathtaking ".

Mr Judge's great innovation is to transform the Liebeslieder Singers from the evening-dressed, after-dinner line-up into 18th century ghosts weaving in and out of the action ... But Mr Judge's other great realisation is that, in Sondheim, the lyrics are not an adornment to a song but their very essence: understand them and the show will flow.

In reviewing the 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production, The Telegraph reviewer wrote that " Sondheim's lyrics are often superbly witty, his music here, mostly in haunting waltz-time, far more accessible than is sometimes the case.

While the origins of hip-hop are believed to be from the Bronx, rival hip-hop group Juice Crew's lyrics were misunderstood to contain a claim in the song " The Bridge " that hip hop was directly a result of artists originating from Queensbridge.

Pasternak gave his lover a book of Petőfi with the inscription, " Petőfi served as a code in May and June 1947, and my close translations of his lyrics are an expression, adapted to the requirements of the text, of my feelings and thoughts for you and about you.

Pasternak later noted on a photograph of himself " Petőfi is magnificent with his descriptive lyrics and picture of nature, but you are better still.

* The Croatian Bojna za specijalna djelovanja ( BSD ) use the lyrics, but instead of " These are men, America's best " they sing " These are men, Croatia's best " and in the final chorus, referring to the son of a killed Green Beret, they also sing " Make him one of Croatia's best ".

Below are the lyrics of the version most often played ; it corresponds to Verse V of the full version and the chorus:

Love's song lyrics are predominantly told from a female's point of view, and her earlier work, particularly on Hole's first two albums, was noted for being highly aggressive and critical toward cultural definitions of women.

In O Sweet Saint Martin's Land, the lyrics for the Southern Cross are Thy Southern Cross the night.

* The 1980s band LaHost's track on the 1985 EMI compilation album ' Fire in Harmony ' was ' Blood and Roses ' - the lyrics of which are loosely based on the Roger Corman film version of Carmilla.

The acute and grave accents are occasionally used in poetry and lyrics: the acute to indicate stress overtly where it might be ambiguous ( rébel vs. rebél ) or nonstandard for metrical reasons ( caléndar ), the grave to indicate that an ordinarily silent or elided syllable is pronounced ( warnèd, parlìament ).

Since then McLean has stated that the lyrics are also somewhat autobiographical and present an abstract story of his life from the mid-1950s until the time he wrote the song in the late 1960s.

This became the ' standard edition ' for the future and it featured some of the literary conventions that modern readers expectthere was still no spacing between words, little or no punctuation and no stage directions, but abbreviated names now denoted changes of speaker, lyrics are broken into ' cola ' and ' strophai ' or lines and stanzas, and a system of accentuation was introduced.

Lerner would often struggle with writing his lyrics.

The live performances for Hole's 1994 and 1995 tours became notorious in the media due to Love's fraught emotional state, with Love often altering hurtful song lyrics toward herself, dedicating songs to Cobain and Pfaff, provoking fans, throwing guitars into the audience, and breaking into screaming fits onstage.

Lead singer Dani Filth has often cited Sheridan Le Fanu as an inspiration to his lyrics.

Unlike other leftist punk bands who use more direct sloganeering, Dead Kennedys ' lyrics were often snide.

" For some critics, the lyrics often seem dislocated from the action but the extent and significance of this is " a matter of scholarly debate.

The Black Eyed Peas often use freestyle lyrics, and Miami rapper Pitbull collaborated with Miami freestyle artist Stevie B to create an updated version of Stevie B's hit, " Spring Love.

The song lyrics are often written in kanji pronounced quite differently from the furigana.

Dowland's melancholic lyrics and music have often been described as his attempts to develop an " artistic persona " though he was actually a cheerful person, but many of his own personal complaints, and the tone of bitterness in many of his comments, suggest that much of his music and his melancholy truly did come from his own personality and frustration.

Thornton's lyrics are often abstract, surreal, and filled with non-sequiturs and juvenile humor.

It combined intricate horn and string arrangements, a variety of styles ( punk, flamenco, Broadway, psychedelic rock ) with Lee's metaphysical and often ironic lyrics.

Early lyrics drew on the band's blues and folk roots, often mixing lyrical fragments from different songs.

Punk bands created fast, hard-edged music, typically with short songs, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics.

Punk rock vocals sometimes sound nasal, and lyrics are often shouted instead of sung in a conventional sense, particularly in hardcore styles.

A distinctive style of punk, characterized by superfast, aggressive beats, screaming vocals, and often politically aware lyrics, began to emerge in 1978 among bands scattered around the United States and Canada.

The acts featured ranting vocals, discordant instrumental sounds, primitive production values, and lyrics filled with political and social content, often addressing issues such as class inequalities and military violence.

Queercore lyrics often treat the themes of prejudice, sexual identity, gender identity, and individual rights.

The lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions.

Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis.

While singers are emotionally engaged with the lyrics, often intensely so, they remain cool, relaxed, and in control.

A song with crude, racist lyrics often sung by white performers in blackface.

In other words, samba-rap and the like often carried lyrics that encouraged Black pride, and spoke out against social injustice.