On the EP, Francis drew upon his experiences in Puerto Rico, mostly in the songs " Vamos " and " Isla de Encanta "; the album included lyrics describing the poverty in Puerto Rico.

Despite the song's name, Poison Ivy wasn't the inspiration for this song but, due to the lyrics describing a girl with a very similar attitude to Ivy, it was quickly associated to the character.

Conway was the main songwriter in the early line-up, with Shields describing the process: " for each song he'd write about 3 pages of lyrics and usually me and Colm would pick out the bits we liked and David would sing that ".

Influenced by bands like Cabaret Voltaire, Killing Joke, and The Cure, the EP is described by Our Band Could Be Your Life author Michael Azerrad as " cold, dark, and resolutely unlistenable ", with the lyrics describing crack addicts and child abusers, and Albini later regarded the effort as one of his few artistic regrets.

One of the most popular songs performed by the American heavy metal band The Sword is, " Maiden, Mother & Crone ", with lyrics describing an encounter with the Triple Goddess.

Clapton originally wrote " Layla " as a ballad, with lyrics describing his unrequited love for Pattie Boyd, but the song became a " rocker " when Allman reportedly helped compose the song's signature riff.

The lyrics have been interpreted by the band as an attack on the hollowness of the consumer lifestyle offered by capitalism, describing how society expects young people to conform.

The band is from Bellingham and the lyrics describing the songwriter's drive south to Seattle to visit a girlfriend.

Allmusic editor Ned Raggett noted that the album " showed the band in fierce and fine fettle once more ", describing Cave's lyrics as " a series of striking, compelling lyrics again exploring love, lust and death " and said the songs " showcase the Seeds ' peerless abilities at fusing older styles with noisy aggression and tension.

The video clip of " Guilty Conscience " features Culp as an erudite and detached narrator describing the scenes where Eminem and Dr. Dre rap lyrics against each other.

Detailed in their lyrics, liner notes, comprehensive website and now television series, The Aquabats have developed a small but elaborate universe surrounding this mythology, describing the band's fictional adventures as well as conceiving an extensive roster of enemies and allies, many of whom are the subjects of specific songs and have appeared as part of the band's stage shows in mock fight scenes or comedic skits.

For the most part, Sodom was at first not taken seriously, with various press sources describing them as " a second-rate Venom clone with semi-inventive lyrics ".

" Country Standard Time critic Mike Clark considered it a transition to a more country pop-oriented sound, describing the album as being " full of bad lyrics and overwrought production clichés.

The dark, ironic lyrics of " Today ", describing a day when Corgan was feeling depressed and suicidal, contrast with the instrumentation.

David Browne of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a D-rating, citing the album's production and describing the content as " teen-jailbait " due to lyrics such as " Why don't you stay with me tonight ".

Most of the lyrics in Violent By Design show Jus and Paz describing exaggerated ways of killing people as well as their metaphorical superhuman powers.

The women sing a Lucia song while entering the room, to the melody of the traditional Neapolitan song Santa Lucia ; the Italian lyrics describe the view from Santa Lucia in Naples, the various Scandinavian lyrics are fashioned for the occasion, describing the light with which Lucia overcomes the darkness.

Atheist Rap's sound, a combination of punk rock with humorous lyrics describing every day accounts found on their studio albums Maori i Crni Gonzales ( 1992 ), Ja eventualno bih ako njega eliminišete ( 1996 ) and II liga zapad ( 1998 ), is described by the band themselves as " happy punk ".

The lyrics of " Southern Man " are vivid, describing the racism towards blacks in the American South.

The song was controversial for its time, with the lyrics describing a boy who tries to convince a Catholic girl who is a virgin to have sex with him.

The song is set in Nova Scotia's rugged Cape Breton Island, and the lyrics contain enchanting imagery describing the island's landscape.

Within the context of the album Lovesexy ( which only contained one track containing all the songs featured within the work ), " Alphabet St ." is meant to stand in contrast to the gospel of " I Know " which plays off of the Christian ethics describing Prince's personal belief in Christian concepts of Heaven, Hell, the Devil, and God ; emphatically stating " No " to the previous stated praise ( and laud of a preacher's voice in the background ) and launching into the sensual, provocative lyrics of " Alphabet St ."

Performed with a full backing band, the song's musical structure was loosely based on Chuck Berry's " Too Much Monkey Business ", while the lyrics were a dizzying array of free association rhymes, hip street-speak, and cautionary advice for the singer's own generation.

Like the pub rock scene he was loosely tied to, the singer's class-conscious lyrics and passionate vocals signalled a renewal of rock music as punk rock began to flower in Britain.

To the tune of a traditional tango, that generally asks the singer's dancing partner to " consume you in a kiss of fire ", the lyrics form a love note to the sadistic inflicter of such glorious pain.

The lyrics tell of the singer's troubled past with his love, Irene, and express his sadness and frustration.

The lyrics tell the story in a first person narrative of the betrayal of the singer's romantic partner, how he heard about it indirectly via gossip from other people ( through the " grapevine "), and the emotional pain and disbelief he is suffering.

On the 9th anniversary of the album, Slant magazine named Milla's The Divine Comedy to their list of 50 Essential Pop albums, they said: " Though some of the singer's lyrics can err on the loopy side ( the songs were written when she was just 15, recorded when she was 16, and released by the time she was legal, which, I suppose, makes this the sole " teen pop " selection on our Vital Pop list ), Milla's messages are mostly conveyed through passion, not words, a claim only the finest performers can make.

The lyrics describe the singer's state of bemusement at the singer's own helpless love for the object of his affection.

In addition, the song implicitly alludes to the singer's sexual orientation and activism by the lyrics:

Billed simply as " Honeytree " most of her career, the singer's folk rock-soprano style was influenced by mainstream artists such as Joni Mitchell, Carole King and Judy Collins, but her lyrics were largely dealing with one's personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

The song's lyrics describe the singer's appreciation for her lover who is lauded as " my number one " and " the only treasure I'll ever have ".

Some noted that Björk was distant from the " pixie " image of the first album, with Jen Appel praising the singer's attitude by saying: " With lyrics such as " If you complain once more / you'll meet an army of me ," Björk instantly proves she is a force to be reckoned with ".

The song's lyrics establish a threatening tone towards the singer's unnamed girlfriend ( referred to throughout the song as " little girl "), claiming " I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man.

The lyrics describe the singer's familiarity with the unhappiness of having to move on after a failed romance.

The lyrics concern the singer's desire to leave Norway and escape to Oleanna, a land where " wheat and corn just plant themselves / then grow a good four feet a day / while on your bed you rest yourself ".

The song is one of the singer's most open lyrics, throughout Mansun ’ s career ; Draper had attempted to write lyrics which were more direct.

The rest of the lyrics describe the singer's promiscuity and liking for women of different complexions: " One woman's Atlanta yellow, the other is Macon brown, but the Statesboro blackskin will turn your damper down ".

Norman, who once notably sang it at the end of a large outdoor rock concert for Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday, stated, " I don't know whether it's the text — I don't know whether we're talking about the lyrics when we say that it touches so many people — or whether it's that tune that everybody knows.

* Hymns: Alcaeus sang about the gods in the spirit of the Homeric hymns, to entertain his companions rather than to glorify the gods and in the same meters that he used for his ' secular ' lyrics.

The rhythms are influenced by the American rap scene, and the lyrics are often about crime, drugs, money, women and many criminal things.

In a 1979 interview on NPR's All Things Considered, Lerner went into some depth about his lyrics for My Fair Lady.

The duo would watch and make humorous observations ( about the band, a song's lyrics, or a video's visuals ), or simply engage in nonsensical dialogue.

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.

( For more information about black metal lyrics, see the ideology section below.

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's album debut, Tin Machine ( 1989 ), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as " a simplistic, naive, radical, laying-it-down about the emergence of neo-Nazis "; in the view of biographer Christopher Sandford, " It took nerve to denounce drugs, fascism and TV [...] in terms that reached the literary level of a comic book.

McLean declined to say anything definitive about the lyrics until 1978.

It used minor chords that made the tracks darker and more moody, and its lyrics tended to be about unrequited love or more somber themes that dealt with the reality of what inner city teens were experiencing emotionally.

The lyrics to the song " Reflection " by Tool are about the Narcissus myth.

Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine has described Francis's writing as containing " bizarre, fragmented lyrics about space, religion, sex, mutilation, and pop culture ".

Two of the earliest recordings which have a funk beat and lyrics which are rhymed in rhythm over this type of beat were released by comedian Pigmeat Markham, " Here Come the Judge " which was released in 1968 by the Chess label and in 1969 another song about running numbers called " Who Got The Number?

While it was primarily a comical song about a Judge and his courtroom it is also notable for the political lyrics " I'm goin ' to Paris to stop this war " and " I had a chat with Ho Chi Minh " both social commentary references about wanting to go to the Paris Peace Accord negotiations to stop the war in Vietnam.

When Massive Attack were asked, in a radio interview on CFNY-FM in Toronto, about why the lyrics were the same, they jokingly said that it was because he was lazy.

Cornwell said the lyrics were " about heroin and also about a girl.

Other pieces from this period include a draft of a play about a Bishop, a monk, and a woman accused of paganism by local shepherds, as well as love-poems and narrative lyrics on medieval German knights.

Although most fans assume ( and the lyrics of " I Bought Myself a Liarbird " from The Big Express imply ) that there was some financial impropriety involved, the terms of the settlement imposed a " gag " on the band and have prevented them from speaking publicly about the matter.

Responding to accusations of racism after referring to " niggers " in the lyrics of the Guns N ' Roses song, " One in a Million ", Axl Rose stated " I was pissed off about some black people that were trying to rob me.

The lyrics always praise the gaucho warriors from the past or tell about the life of the gaucho campeiros ( provincial gauchos who keep the common way ).

Follow the Leader marked the first album where the majority of the lyrics did not have origins relating to early occurrences, with songs like " Justin " and " Pretty " written about incidents occurring during adulthood.