One of the finest soft shoe tunes ever invented, `` Once In Love With Amy '' is also, of course, one of the most tantalizingly persistent of light love lyrics to come out of American musical comedy in our era.

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.

Sample lyrics: " Now ain't it strange that I feel like Philby / There's a stranger in my soul / I'm lost in transit in a lonesome city / I can't come in from the cold.

Pointing out lyrics such as " Look inside America / She's alright ", and noting Albarn's " obligatory nod to Beck, promotion of the new Pavement album as if paid to do so ", reviewers felt the band had come to accept American values during this time — an about-face of their attitude during the Britpop years.

Others such as The Twa Sisters also come from England, however the lyrics are about Ireland.

The song's lyrics explicitly allude to the depression and aural hallucinations that would hamper Wilson's health in the decade to come.

Pointing out lyrics such as " Look inside America / She's alright ", and noting Albarn's " obligatory nod to Beck, promotion of the new Pavement album as if paid to do so ", reviewers felt the band had come to accept American values during this time — an about-face of their attitude during the Britpop years.

They come from Chilicothes and Padukahs ..." Both cities were misspelled in the original lyrics.

This is further stressed by Linnell's ambiguity, upon being asked about the origin of the song's obscure lyrics, replying " where did it come from?

Recordings of the concerts prove that the east German audience knew the lyrics of his solo songs, and in particular all of the " Ton Steine Scherben " songs which he performed by heart, even though the albums were hard to come by in the GDR.

Black Sabbath's music is itself stylistically rooted in blues, but with the deliberately doomy and loud guitar playing of Tony Iommi ( who often used the tritone in his playing and composition ), and the then-uncommon dark and pessimistic lyrics and atmosphere, they set the standards of early heavy metal and inspired various doom metal bands to come.

It is essentially the second form of Hip-Hop to come into existence, but wasn't known by the media until the 1990s, when the music had become stigmatised by explicit lyrics ; includes performers like 2 Live Crew

The lyrics, melodies and fast-paced beats that Ravi B and many other artists use in their songs, come from and are based on trinidian culture and household traditions.

Despite its popularity, the genre of modern laïká ( especially laïkο-pop ) has come under scrutiny for " featuring musical clichés, average singing voices and slogan-like lyrics " and for " being a hybrid, neither laïkó, nor pop ".

A brief period in the United States saw him exposed to the Black Power movement and the Black Panthers, an influence that he would come to express in his lyrics.

Since then it has come to be known under the slightly longer present title and a few minor adjustments have been made to the lyrics.

In Chinese, Yuefu, " Music Bureau ", is synonymous with yuefu the poetry style, thus the term Yuefu has come to refer both to the Music Bureau's collected lyrics and to the genre of which they are representative and a source of inspiration.

Some radio stations refused to play " Inside My Love " due to the lyrics: " Will you come inside me?

The lyrics of this anthem come from a poem written in the 1930s by Egyptian-born Syrian poet Mostafa Saadeq Al-Rafe ' ie.

Written entirely in Swedish, with lyrics and book by Björn Ulvaeus, Lars Rudolffson, and Jan Mark, it attempted to streamline the story back to its original form and eliminate the aspects of political potboiler that had come to define the show.

The author of the lyrics is unknown, and the music seems to come from an earlier folk song sung by riceweeders.

'" Whether this refers to Tindley's 1902 gospel song cannot be determined, since the lyrics and tune have not come down to us.

The terms ‘ You ’ and ‘ I ’ are used rather than ‘ God ’ and ‘ we ’, and lyrics such as, ‘ I, I ’ m desperate for You ’, and ‘ Hungry I come to You for I know You satisfy, I am empty but I know Your love does not run dry ’ both exemplify the similarity of the lyrics of some CWM to popular love songs.

The CTCA distributed a khaki-bound songbook that provided the impetus for spirited renditions of the selections found therein, plus a number of others whose lyrics were more earthy -- from `` Johnny Get Your Gun '' to `` Keep The Home Fires Burning '' to `` Mademoiselle From Armentieres ''.

Stroked him, snaked all through him, the lyrics lifted him, took him from one magic isle to another, stopping briefly at each Brandon.

and the incisive style with which Charlotte Rae delivers the top-drawer Hart lyrics of `` I Blush '', a song that was cut from `` A Connecticut Yankee ''.

Collins, Cash, and Norman were unable to discern if the power of the song came from the music or the lyrics.

Tim Blake ( synthesiser player on Planet Gong ) produced a solo album called " Blake's New Jerusalem ", including a 20 minute track with lyrics from Blake's poem.

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.

He received an urgent call from Andrew Lloyd Webber who wanted him to write the lyrics to The Phantom of the Opera, for which he wrote " Masquerade ".

Andersson currently performs with his own band of 16 musicians, BAO ; " Benny Anderssons Orkester " (" Benny Andersson's orchestra "), utilising the vocal talents of fellow Swedes Helen Sjöholm ( from Kristina from Duvemåla ) and Tommy Körberg ( of Chess fame ), with lyrics to new material sometimes written by his song-writing partner and best friend of 40 years, Björn Ulvaeus.

In 2000, Benny wrote the music for fellow Swede ( no relation ) Roy Andersson's film Songs from the Second Floor ( the music later re-recorded, featuring new lyrics, with BAO!

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.

According to this episode, Dr. Sam Beckett ( Scott Bakula ) influences Buddy Holly to change the lyrics from " piggy, suey " to " Peggy Sue ", thus setting up Holly's future hit song.

Queen Boadicea features in the opening lyrics of the song " The Good Old Days " written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for British rock band The Libertines from their 2002 album " Up the bracket ", the line reads, " If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone, Still then the spirit in her children's children's children, it lives on ".

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.

Common themes and references present in Love's lyrics from her early career included body image, rape, suicide, misogyny, conformity, elitism, pregnancy, prostitution, and death.

According to Love, her main focus in the band from very early on was on lyrics: " For me, I was just about lyrics and performance.

The band, who all wore white shirts with a big, black S painted on the front, pulled black ties from around the backs of their necks to form a dollar sign, then started playing a new song titled " Pull My Strings ", a barbed, satirical attack on the ethics of the mainstream music industry, which contained the lyrics, " Is my cock big enough, is my brain small enough, for you to make me a star ?".

Low ( 1977 ), partly influenced by the Krautrock sound of Kraftwerk and Neu !, evidenced a move away from narration in Bowie's songwriting to a more abstract musical form in which lyrics were sporadic and optional.

Released the same year and containing re-recorded tracks from Omikron, his album ' Hours ...' featured a song with lyrics by the winner of his " Cyber Song Contest " Internet competition, Alex Grant.

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.

Plutarch is the source also for the story that the victorious Spartan generals, having planned the demolition of Athens and the enslavement of its people, grew merciful after being entertained at a banquet by lyrics from Euripides's play Electra: " they felt that it would be a barbarous act to annihilate a city which produced such men " ( Life of Lysander )

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

Francis Scott Key ( August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843 ) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States ' national anthem, " The Star-Spangled Banner ".