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.

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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.

During the band's early years, Peart's lyrics were largely fantasy / science fiction-focused, though since 1980 he has focused more on social, emotional, and humanitarian issues.

Many musicals, such as the old Betty Grable-Don Ameche-Carmen Miranda vehicles, are largely unaffected, but this practice is especially misleading in translations of musicals like Show Boat, The Wizard of Oz, My Fair Lady or Carousel, in which the lyrics to the songs and the spoken text are often or always closely integrated, and the lyrics serve to further the plot.

Critical reactions to the album were largely positive ; Stephen Thompson in the Wisconsin State Journal described it as possessing " great lyrics, creative instrumentation and production that's about as simple as production gets ", Thomas Conner praised it for being " soulful and smooth, witty and gritty, this record makes the ghosts of Bob Wills, Buddy Holly and Lou Reed smile " in the Tulsa World, and Matt Weitz in the Dallas Observer noted its " gimlet eye and sardonic humor ".

" After alleged opposition to the dark lyrics of one of his contributions, the autobiographical "' Til I Die " ( a song demoed in 1969 and largely recorded in 1970 ), Wilson was reported to have lost interest in the group once more, conceding leadership of the sessions to his youngest brother.

Linton Kwesi Johnson, British Black activist and a protagonist of " Dub Poetry " was largely influenced by the writings of Fanon, as evidenced by several of the lyrics on Johnson's album Dread Beat an ' Blood.

This song has largely inscrutable lyrics that seem to be claiming that America is a " bitch " that " suck the brains " of her " great grandsons and daughters.

Upon release, Rip the Jacker received rave reviews from the majority of critics, who noted that Williams ' largely scientific lyrics and distinctive, rough delivery was finally matched by equally fine production, as Canibus had a history of working with badly selected producers.

In the 2000s, a quieter style emerged, with largely impressionistic lyrics, from artists such as Norah Jones, Conor Oberst, Sufjan Stevens, David Bazan, South San Gabriel, Iron & Wine, David Gray, Ray LaMontagne, Meg Hutchinson, Steve Millar, Jolie Holland, Richard Buckner, Jewel, Jack Savoretti, Richard Shindell, and John Gorka.

The band's direction has largely been driven by Corgan through his confessional lyrics, grandiose production values, and virtuosic musical interplay, notably with Chamberlin.

) The lyrics and dialogue were generally racist, satiric, and largely white in origin.

Staley's lyrics are largely viewed as having often dealt with his personal troubles, such as drug use and depression.

The soldiers had a repertoire of their own, largely consisting of new, often ribald, lyrics to older tunes.

The songs and lyrics are largely identical to the original album, with the addition of " Someone Else's Story " from the Broadway version and " The Soviet Machine " from the West End version.

" Johnson has said that the two write lyrics for songs largely independently.

Today in China the song is considered a somewhat unseemly reminder of the cult of personality associated with Mao and has largely been replaced by the " March of the Volunteers ", whose lyrics mention neither the Communist Party nor Mao.

Most of these works, although important in unearthing, and in some cases preserving, locally relevant ballads, largely depended on manuscript sources, rather than oral collection and often did not give tunes, but only lyrics.

The band is largely a product of lead vocalist / guitarist Robert Schneider, who writes the majority of the band's music and lyrics.

" On Blood, Moore largely abandoned his earlier stream-of-consciousness approach to writing lyrics, in an attempt to make the lyrics more coherent.

The songs were largely inspired by scenes from various children's films ; Clark has stated that she would imagine a soundtrack for certain scenes from films when constructing the music and lyrics, including scenes from Snow White ( 1937 ) and The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ).

The incorporation of religious texts as lyrics were replaced by lyrics largely written by medieval Sufi poets, especially Hafez and Jalal-e Din Rumi.

The repression and censorship in music was largely due to lyrics of a political, controversial, or sexual nature in a largely conservative country.