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.

The most notable features of his lyrics are their clarity in expression and simplicity of thought, making them an ideal introduction to the study of Greek lyric poetry in general and to Pindar's verse in particular.

Judy Garland thought the song as written was too mean to sing to Margaret O ' Brien, so he changed the lyrics.

Lester Bangs wrote in 1982, " Van was making holy music even though he thought he was, and us rock critics had made our usual mistake of paying too much attention to the lyrics.

It is thought that Courtney Love and Bjelland had collaborated on songs in their previous bands and during Love's brief time in Babes In Toyland, which resulted in the sharing of the lyrics.

He later jokingly thought about changing the lyrics to " There will be some feedback, let it be ".

Christians in the USA went out and bought Iron Maiden's albums ( along with those of Ozzy Osbourne's ) and burnt them in protest to what they thought were Satanic lyrics.

When asked if he thought the incident was a case of racial profiling, Kravitz said he wasn ’ t sure although some of the lyrics in the song suggest otherwise.

His long poems have a certain narrative and psychological penetration, and some of his lyrics have a strength of melody to match their depth of thought.

The lyrics of later versions differ, referencing former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, with Yorke singing " Did you lie to us, Tony ?/ We thought you were different / Now, y ' know, we're not so sure " at Earl's Court in November 2003.

His Sanskrit lyrics are in praise of the temple deity, but Muthuswami introduces the Advaita thought seamlessly into his songs, resolving the inherent relationship between Advaita philosophy and polytheistic worship.

Kilmer also spent hundreds of hours with Paul Rothchild, who told him, " anecdotes, stories, tragic moments, humorous moments, how Jim thought, what were my interpretation of Jim's lyrics ," the music producer said.

Wodehouse admired Bolton's stagecraft, but thought his lyrics weak, and at Kern's urging they decided to write jointly, Wodehouse concentrating on the lyrics and Bolton on the book.

Apart from love poetry and political statements they contain a lot of thought lyrics that is perhaps his most important legacy.

The majority of songs on the album were rated highly ; she thought " The Greatest View " was a stand-out with " orchestral twangs ", and " After All These Years " had " sweeping horns, introspective lyrics and soft, haunting vocals ".

With this album, Kasher turned his focus away from self-reflective lyrics to concentrate on what he thought were bad politics, empty suburban lives, and religious hypocrisy.

According to Todd Pipes, the lyrics of the song were inspired by Audrey Hepburn's performance in the feature film Roman Holiday, but he thought that the Hepburn film Breakfast at Tiffany's would make a better song title.

Asked before the show about what he thought about his Manchester-influenced imagery in his songs, Guy Garvey said, " I think lyrics are one of the tools of the box in order to try to get the feeling across.

The lyrics are thought to be around 100 years old, and the melody has been traced back to the early 19th century.

Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times thought it offered one of Berlin's " most enchanting scores: fresh, light, and beguiling, and fitted to lyrics that fall out of it with grace and humor ", and the New York Post called Merman " indescribably soul-satisfying ", " a comedienne of rare skill ", and " one of the joys of the world.

He demonstrated considerable invention in musical thought by connecting the tone and emotion of his music to those of his lyrics, particularly in his motets.

With its deep thought provoking lyrics, the song was praised by many people who had experienced the death of close ones.

The second verse of " Weird Al " Yankovic's Close but No Cigar from his album Straight Outta Lynwood contains the lyrics " I thought after all these years of searching around, I'd found my soulmate finally / But one day I found out she actually owned a copy of Joe Dirt on DVD ...", implying that her owning a copy of the DVD prompted the protagonist to end the relationship.

His laughter, he later explained, was provoked by the fact that he thought these words ridiculous – which seems to be representative of his attitude towards Sinfield's lyrics in general.