In 2010, the move to computers as the primary form of purchasing and consuming music also saw rise of the official " lyric video ".

A " lyric video " is often released separately by a music label and prior to the official " music video " for a song.

They have released a lyric video for the song 1915 which is about Joe Hill.

The Buggles ' hit song " Video Killed the Radio Star ", the first video ever to air on MTV, contains the lyric " Put the blame on VTR ".

The bass and rhythm guitars in the solo section of the song play a riff close to that of " Enter Sandman ", and even though the band mentions it in lyric immediately after the riff, the band was forced to remove the part from the later CD versions of Cereal Killer and pull the music video from MTV.

The incomprehensibility of such an elaborate video enhanced its popularity among Western audiences who could not understand the Japanese lyric ( s ).

The band releases a single video, directed by Ang Lee, titled " Drop Da Bomb ", which contains the suspicious lyric, ' Yvan eht Nioj '.

On June 29, 2012, the band released the lyric video for a new track called ' Sad, Sad, Sad '.

" Everybody Have Fun Tonight " features the oft-quoted lyric " Everybody Wang Chung tonight ", and also has a well-remembered music video ( directed by Godley & Creme ) where virtually every frame featured a jump cut.

The music for the video is the David Kershenbaum re-mix of the studio track, which contains an alternate chorus lyric in the closing section of the song.

The presentation specifically took issue with the band's use of the Confederate Flag, the video for their song " Throat Full of Glass ", and the lyric " all you feminist cunts / you know that you want it / give head if you got it " from the song " Give Head If You Got It ".

" However, the song / video saw limited airplay in the United States, due to its lyric containing the word " bullshit.

For " Bullet the Blue Sky ", the video screens displayed burning crosses and swastikas ; during " Running to Stand Still ", Bono mimed the actions of a heroin addict from the B-stage, rolling up his sleeves and then spiking his arm during the final lyric.

In 2006, the song made its video game debut as a playable song in Taiko no Tatsujin Portable 2 after having been popularized in Japan by a viral misheard lyric video with 2ch characters.

" An early version of the song as heard on a live video shot in 1983 and released by Flipside magazine has Boon mentioning his boss by name ; he later changed the lyric prior to recording the song for Double Nickels on the Dime.

Euripides was also a great lyric poet.

* The lyric poet Bacchylides quoted / paraphrased Hesiod in a victory ode addressed to Hieron of Syracuse, commemorating the tyrant's win in the chariot race at the Pythian Games 470 BC, the attribution made with these words: " A man of Boeotia, Hesiod, minister of the Muses, spoke thus: ' He whom the immortals honour is attended also by the good report of men.

A set of four short lyric poems ( shi 詩 ) entitled " Lyric Poems on Four Sorrows " ( 四愁詩 ), is also included with Zhang's preface.

" In the same song, they also switched the lyric " Don't tell me you want money " to " Don't tell me it ain't funny.

Suda mentions a feud between Simonides and the Rhodian lyric poet, Timocreon, for whom Simonides apparently composed a mock epitaph that touches on the issue of the Rhodian's medism — an issue that also involved Themistocles.

Like other lyric poets in late Archaic Greece, Simonides made notable use of compound adjectives and decorative epithets yet he is also remarkable for his restraint and balance.

Alcman ( also Alkman ;, gen .: Ἀλκμᾶνος ; 7th century BC ) was an Ancient Greek choral lyric poet from Sparta.

Andromache is the subject of a 1932 opera by German composer Herbert Windt and also a lyric scena for soprano and orchestra by Samuel Barber.

There is also a large body of medieval Galician-Portuguese lyric.

The Naga-Uta is a lyric poem, popular in this era, in alternating five and seven lines and ending with an extra seven-syllable line ( see also the earlier choka version ).

Although better known for his epic Lusiadas, Luís de Camões is also considered the greatest Portuguese lyric poet of the period.

The songs of classic pop may also be said to possess certain ineffable qualities, including but not limited to an ease and memorability of melody, along with wit and charm of lyric.

" Shotton was also responsible for suggesting to Lennon to change the lyric " waiting for the man to come " to " waiting for the van to come ".

Sullivan complied, but also saved the first version, leaving an unusual example of two separate settings of the same lyric.

He also edited Anacreon ( 1834 ), the fragments of Aristophanes ( 1840 ), Aristophanes ( 3rd ed., 1872 ), Sophocles ( 2nd ed., 1868 ), a lyric anthology ( 4th ed., 1890 ).

This technique is one of the main arsenals of dramatic singers especially useful in verismo operas e. g. Tosca, Pagliacci, and Cavalleria rusticana, where it can be used to great effect in recitatives and declamatory passages ; it also allows more lyric voices to safely survive the strain of bread-and-butter lyrico-spinto roles such as Mario ( Tosca ).

As a Minnesinger, he also wrote lyric poetry.

As Azerbaijani gradually moved from being merely a language of epic and lyric poetry to being also a language of journalism and scientific research, its literary version has become more or less unified and simplified with the loss of many archaic Turkic elements, stilted Iranisms and Ottomanisms, and other words, expressions, and rules that failed to gain popularity among Azerbaijani-speaking masses.

It is also the title of a song by John Lennon and a lyric by James Brown: " Power to the people, people power!

The satirical lyric content also fitted well with the son, and many bands played both genres.

Hulme also observes that though he is seen as Sullivan's successor, German's music is quite different in style, and his lyric ballads especially show " a romantic warmth that struck a new note in British operetta ".

He also produced " I Want to Spend My Lifetime Loving You " ( music by James Horner, lyric by Will Jennings ) for the 1998 film The Mask of Zorro.

The tune is also sometimes known as " Butterfields Lullaby ", or by the first line of the lyric, " Day is Done ".

In contrast to the classic Shijing, the Chu Ci anthology ( also familiarly known, in English, as the Songs of Chu or the Songs of the South or transliterated as the Ch ' Tz ' u ) consists of verses more emphasizing lyric and romantic features, as well as irregular line-lengths and other influences from the poetry typical of the state of Chu.

However, Suskin states in Show Tunes that " As the writing progressed and the extent of Bernstein's lyric contributions became less, the composer agreed to rescind his credit ... Contrary to rumor, Sondheim did not write music for the show ; his only contribution came on " Something's Coming ", where he developed the main strain of the chorus from music Bernstein wrote for the verse.

The opening lyric to the song states " I've been wandering East of Eden "

The song's lyric refers to conditions in the Southern states in the winter of early 1865 (" We were hungry / Just barely alive "); the Confederacy is starving and on the verge of defeat.

While Other Voices inside gatefold cover states " All songs written by Krieger, Densmore, Manzarek ," a lyric sheet was included with early LP editions of the album that listed individual writing credits, and some early versions of the LP include these credits on the LP record labels as well.

The song is essentially an instrumental piece and a vehicle for scatting and improvisational vocals, since, as the chorus ( the song's only actual lyric ) states, " ain't no words to this song / you just dance and hum along ".

A well-known lyric states: