I wouldn't hear from him for a couple of weeks, then he'd come around with the completed lyric ''.

Lewis Song " from the album Albertine, which is heavily indebted to Lewis's works, including the lyric " If I find in myself desires nothing in this world can satisfy / I can only conclude that I was not made for here.

* Richard I, Ja nuls om pres non dira sa razon ( Occitan version of lyric )

* Richard I, Ja nus hons pris ne dira sa reson ( French version of lyric, with English translation by James H. Donalson )

This wasn't written about Kenneth Williams per se, but, after I'd composed it and was playing it through, I realised the lyric sort of summed Kenneth up − I think I'd recently been reading his published Diaries and I had ended the song with the same words Williams had written in his diary before he died.

In 1914, at the start of the First World War, Novello wrote " Keep the Home Fires Burning ", a song that expressed the feelings of innumerable families sundered by World War I. Novello composed the music for the song to a lyric by the American Lena Guilbert-Ford, and it became a huge popular success, bringing Novello money and fame at the age of 21.

* Japanese — Alcoholic Kidz: " Pierrot " ( 2009 ); Aya Kamiki: " Pierrot " ( 2006 ); Berryz Kobo: " Kokuhaku no Funsui Hiroba " (" Fountain Plaza of My Confession " ; contains lyric " I am Pierrot "); Tanaka Koki of pop group KAT-TUN: " Pierrot ", from Break the Records: By You & For You ( 2009 ); Yellow Magic Orchestra: " Mad Pierrot ", from Yellow Magic Orchestra ( 1978 ).

* I Do ( Young Jeezy song ) Andre 3000 mentions in a lyric ' And maybe 2030 our baby, she ’ ll be nerdy make the whole club swoon '

The Roman love elegy of Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid ( Amores, Heroides ), with its focus on the poetic " I " and the expression of personal feeling, may be the thematic ancestor of much medieval, renaissance, Romantic and modern lyric poetry, but these works were composed in elegiac couplets, and so were not lyric poetry in the ancient sense.

" The lyric is: " I bring the sun at red dawn upon the thoughts of Frantz Fanon, So stand at attention devil dirge, You'll never survive choosing sides against the Wretched of the Earth.

The song has the distinction of being the first Beatles recording to be referenced by the group themselves: the second verse of Lennon's " I Am the Walrus ", released on Magical Mystery Tour at the end of 1967, contains the lyric " see how they fly, like Lucy in the sky, see how they run ...".

The song " La Fee Verte " by British rock band Kasabian contains the lyric " I see Lucy in the sky, Telling me I'm high.

As Lennon and McCartney were known to do at the time, a substitute working lyric, titled " Scrambled Eggs " ( the working opening verse was " Scrambled Eggs / Oh, my baby how I love your legs "), was used for the song until something more suitable was written.

" " Adam's Song ," in turn, includes the lyric " I took my time, I hurried up, The choice was mine, I didn't think enough.

Sullivan had trouble setting one lyric in particular, " I have a song to sing-O!

* The Austin, Texas band Sound Team references Belshazzar with the lyric: " But I don't have to sleep at Belshazzar's house anymore / Gave up the center line " on the track " No More Birthdays " off their Movie Monster LP.

Davis and Durst would often offer suggestions for each other's lyrics ; a lyric written by Durst as " tootin ' on your bagpipe " was changed to " fagpipes " by Davis, who stated " I helped him bag on me better ".

:* The song " Don't Look Back in Anger " from ( What's the Story ) Morning Glory ( 1995 ) features a piano line near-identical to that of John Lennon's solo hit " Imagine ", as well as a bridge section instrumentally reminiscent of " Octopus's Garden " and featuring a Lennon quote in the lyric (' so I start a revolution from my bed ').

Anghel addresses a lover, telling him that " I don't wanna say goodbye ", implying throughout the lyric that their relationship is coming to an end.

In 2009, the song was namechecked in the Train hit single Hey, Soul Sister with the lyric I believe in you / Like a virgin you're Madonna / And I'm always gonna wanna blow your mind

However, this division into two groups is considered by some modern scholars to be too simplistic and often it is practically impossible to know whether a lyric composition was sung or recited, or whether or not it was accompanied by musical instruments and dance.

The label was immortalized in the 1978 Rockpile song " They Called It Rock ," in the lyric, " Arista says they love you / But the kids can't dance to this.

In 2 / 4 time, this dance music spread to other countries, leaving behind what Ed Morales has called the " most popular lyric tradition in Latin America ".

The hokey cokey ( United Kingdom ) or hokey pokey ( United States, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand ), also known as okey cokey, or cokey cokey, is a participation dance with a distinctive accompanying tune and lyric structure.

The ethnic Macedonian traditional music, which can be rural or urban ( starogradska muzika ), includes: lyric songs, epic songs, labour songs, ritual songs, humorous songs, circle dance (" oro "), the old urban style called Čalgija ( not to be confused with chalga ) etc.

The Allegretto then moves through lyric, march and dance sections.

The band usually performs a slightly different version of the song at concerts, most notably with the final " Come and dance with me " replaced by the more risqué " Come all over me " ( this alternative lyric is in the liner notes, but crossed out and with the recorded lyric written beside it.

" St. Vitus ' dance " is a lyric in the Jack White ( musician ) song I'm Shakin ' from the album Blunderbuss ( album )

In most cases most or all of the song lyric is given over to instructions for the associated dance ; see: Category: Instructional dance songs.

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 ".

They also played “ satirical songs ( sometimes openly scabrous ); dance melodies ; either with or without words ; lyric songs ; and historical songs ”.

Different sources however suggest that there also existed aristocratic historical records ( like Heldenlieder ), lyric folklore ( dance, love songs, spells ).

In the 1990 film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Michaelangelo and Donatello dance to " Tequila " but change the lyric to " Ninjitsu!

Though versatile and capable of turning out a ballad lyric with the best of them, Mercer's forte is a highly polished quasi-folk wit.

Alcaeus ( Alkaios, ) of Mytilene ( c. 620 – 6th century BC ), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos Island who is credited with inventing the Alcaic verse.

On Capp's exit, Lennon sang an impromptu version of his Ballad of John and Yoko song with a slightly revised, but nonetheless prophetic lyric: " Christ, you know it ain't easy / You know how hard it can be / The way things are goin ' / They're gonna crucify Capp!

Pinafore relied on stock character types, many of which were familiar from European opera ( and some of which grew out of Gilbert's earlier association with the German Reeds ): the heroic protagonist ( tenor ) and his love-interest ( soprano ); the older woman with a secret or a sharp tongue ( contralto ); the baffled lyric baritone — the girl's father ; and a classic villain ( bass-baritone ).

* 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.

The artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres painted a scene showing Ictinus together with the lyric poet Pindar.

Thrash metal band Slayer later covered the song, with the last iteration of the lyric " Guilty of being white " changed to " Guilty of being right.

Similarly, if a lyric uses words that the listener is unfamiliar with, they may be misheard as using more familiar terms.

At the 1928 Olympics, Kazimierz Wierzyński won the lyric gold medal with his poem Olympic Laurel that included a verse on Nurmi.

Out of over 200 remaining remnants of Sappho ’ s poetry, Fragment 16 and Fragment 44 in particular are considered lyric retellings of Homer epics, as Sappho was known to be very familiar with Homer ’ s poems.

American concert and stage performers will often fail to " breathe " and / or " voice " between the two fricatives, leading audiences familiar with British slang to hear " Don't you love arse ?," misinterpreting the lyric or at the least perceiving an unintended double entendre.

Quite early in his career he began to distinguish himself as a lyric poet, with the three successive volumes of his Heather Blossoms ( 1845-1854 ).

Catalan zarzuela was turned little by little into what is called, in Catalan, teatre líric català (" Catalan lyric theater "), with a personality of its own, and with modernista lyricists and composers.

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.

" Heaney's first translation came with the Irish lyric poem " Buile Suibhne ", published as Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish ( 1984 ), a character and connection taken up in Station Island ( 1984 ).

All of Ella Fitzgerald's scat performances of " How High the Moon ", for instance, use the same tempo, begin with a chorus of a straight reading of the lyric, move to a " specialty chorus " introducing the scat chorus, and then the scat itself.

W. H. Auden praises it, saying " To succeed in these tales, as Berlioz most brilliantly does, requires a combination of qualities which is very rare, the many-faceted curiosity of the dramatist with the aggressively personal vision of the lyric poet.

The Cure's primary musical traits have been listed as " dominant, melodic bass lines ; whiny, strangulated vocals ; and a lyric obsession with existential, almost literary despair.

" His career coincided with the ascendency of dramatic styles of poetry, as embodied in the works of Aeschylus or Sophocles, and he is in fact one of the last poets of major significance within the more ancient tradition of purely lyric poetry.

They were arranged in nine ' books ', exemplifying the following genres ( Bacchylides in fact composed in a greater variety of genres than any of the other lyric poets who comprise the canonic nine, with the exception of Pindar, who composed in ten ):