The melodies flow along pleasantly, as Mr. Coward's songs usually do, but his lyrics have a tired, cut-to-a-familiar-pattern quality.

While the group only recorded one album together as the Analog Brothers, a few bootlegs of its live concert performances, including freestyles with original lyrics, have occasionally surfaced online.

Blake's lyrics have also been set to music by other composers without reference to Parry's melody.

His bands have included Watt 4 ( 1980 ), in which he played keyboards and provided voice, Craig Charles and the Beat Burglars ( 1989 ), The Sons of Gordon Gekko ( 1989 ), where he wrote lyrics and also composed tunes for the band, and The Eye ( 2000 – 01 ), with whom he released the rock album " Giving You The Eye, Live at the Edinburgh Festival ".

Others have lighthearted and playful lyrics.

The lyrics of some of the songs have been changed for family-friendly airplay, which has been claimed by the band to be a play on irony of sorts of the messages of their classic hits.

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.

It was originally a four-stanza song and, over the years, some lyrics have changed.

In 1980s the youth magazine Na Przełaj printed lyrics of rock songs in a column titled " KOALANG ", hinting that the texts of the songs have content concealed from censorship.

Some of their lyrics, especially those derived from the blues, have been interpreted as misogynistic.

The short love lyrics of Catullus have never been surpassed in emotional intensity.

Aspects of the history and legends concerning Lindisfarne have occasionally found their way into the lyrics and concepts of bands, musicians and composers.

Of course, it didn't occur to me at the time I wrote it that anybody outside of my twenty or thirty friends who I was singing to would ever have to actually ponder the lyrics or even consider them.

No surviving lyrics or music for the carol have been identified.

Although people have no doubt misconstrued song lyrics for as long as songs have been sung, without improved communication and the language standardization that accompanies it, he believes there would have been no way to recognize and discuss this shared experience.

Weir's lyrics have been revised twice, taking their present form in 1980, but the French lyrics remain unaltered.

They have discovered melody, guitar solos and lyrics that are more than shouted political slogans.

Most punk rock songs are short, have simple and somewhat basic arrangements using relatively few chords, and they use lyrics that express punk values and ideologies ranging from the nihilism of the Sex Pistols ' " No Future " to the anti-vice message of Minor Threat's " Straight Edge ".

Many wrestlers, particularly in America, have music and lyrics specially written for their ring entrance.

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?

The lyrics quote from several of the poem's verses, and the tracks ' highly stylized and heavily reverberated production values and pop mysticism have made it a favorite of samplers, beat-diggers, and fans of psychedelic jazz and R & B.

When requiring fresh ideas, Anderson would travel to New York, buy songs that had been American hits, and then translated or transcribe the lyrics on the return journey ready for a recording session shortly after and then have the record on the shelves within a few days.

Bruce Hindmarsh suggests that the secular popularity of " Amazing Grace " is due to the absence of any mention of God in the lyrics until the fourth verse ( by Excell's version, the fourth verse begins " When we've been there ten thousand years "), and that the song represents the ability of humanity to transform itself instead of a transformation taking place at the hands of God.

Stephen Sondheim wrote lyrics for the " Night Waltz " theme (" Love Takes Time ") and wrote an entirely new version of " The Glamorous Life ", which has been incorporated into several subsequent productions of the stage musical.

Although the original had been one of Marc Almond's all-time favourite songs, he had never read the lyrics and thus incorrectly sang " What'll it be, what'll it be, you and me " instead of " Falling free, falling free, falling free ".

Her later work was more introspective in its lyrics as opposed to aggressive ; Hole's Celebrity Skin and Love's solo album, America's Sweetheart, focused more on celebrity life, Hollywood, and drug addiction, while also carrying on past themes of vanity and body image, and Nobody's Daughter was lyrically reflective of Love's past relationships and her struggle to sobriety, with the majority of its lyrics having been written while Love was in rehab in 2006.

Once a normal wall, since the 1980s it has been filled with John Lennon-inspired graffiti and pieces of lyrics from Beatles songs.

The Pixies ' musical style has been described as " an unorthodox marriage of surf music and punk rock, ... characterized by Black's bristling lyrics and hackle-raising caterwaul, Kim Deal's whispered harmonies and waspy basslines, Joey Santiago's fragile guitar, and the persistent flush of David Lovering's drums.

's lyrics had been angry, menacing, violent, hostile, confrontational and aggressive, they typically denounced crime and ignorance, but the media began to blame the group for the incidents.

Since 1997, the South African national anthem has been a hybrid song combining new English lyrics with extracts of the hymn Nkosi Sikelel ' iAfrika ( God Bless Africa ) and the former anthem Die Stem van Suid-Afrika ( The Call of South Africa ).

Guthrie's unrecorded written lyrics housed at the Archives have been the starting point of several albums including the Wilco and Billy Bragg albums Mermaid Avenue and Mermaid Avenue Vol.

Christine had been a huge fan of the Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac, and since she knew all the lyrics to their songs, she went along.

She has been noted for her ethereal visual style and symbolic lyrics.

Although the theme is most widely known as an instrumental, it has been released with at least two different sets of lyrics.

The Native American ( Diné ) trio Blackfire also interpreted previously unreleased Guthrie lyrics at Nora's invitation.

Some images are motivated by the biography of the person depicted, but some designs just draw their motif from the poet's name ( thus, Dietmar is shown riding a mule, since his name can be interpreted as meaning people's horse ), while others draw on imagery from their lyrics ( Walther von der Vogelweide is shown in a thoughtful pose which exactly matches the description of himself in one of his most famous songs ).

Also, the tune of " La Primavera ", a track from that same album, is used in several other songs featured on the LP, while lyrics for a few songs on Sibérie m ' était contée are repeated several times with different music, leading the lyrics to be interpreted in various ways depending on the mood of the track.

Although the band members claimed not to be a " political band " — they are simply " political people " who are also musicians, they say — the group's lyrics have a political message which can be interpreted as generally anti-capitalist and anarchist.

* Theme music interpreted with lyrics by John William ( programme theme was never broadcast with lyrics ).

As the song is set in the present, his mentioning in the lyrics of " the bad wind of an horrendous disease " was interpreted at the time as a reference to AIDS, mainly by music journalists who were not familiar with Poe's story.

" In another song called " Fancy ", which contains the lyrics " You always tried to compete with me, girl ... find your own identity ", was interpreted by critic David Browne, in his review of the album for Entertainment Weekly magazine, as a response to the lawsuit.

The lyrics of the song criticized the path hip hop music was taking and was interpreted by some as directing blame towards the popularity of West Coast Gangsta rap.

To promote nationalistic pride amongst Indonesian people, Sukarno interpreted these ideas in his dress, in his urban planning for the capital ( eventually Jakarta ), and in his socialist politics, though he did not extend his taste for modern art to pop music ; he had Koes Plus imprisoned for their allegedly decadent lyrics despite his reputation for womanising.

Earlier that week, he had received complaints about the lyrics of the song which contains a line that could be interpreted as degrading to Polish people, but the Swedish Chancellor of Justice decided not to try this as a violation of the hate speech act.

The lyrics have also been variously interpreted.

The latter track, with lyrics by Edwards, can also be interpreted as an exploration of his mental state before his disappearance ; the line " Here chewing your tail is joy " for instance may be as much about Richey's self-harm as it is the tormented self-injury of zoo animals.

While waiting for a proper sequel to Kär och galen Lundell released two records, one in which he interpreted the English songs with Swedish lyrics ( Sweethearts ) and a completely acoustic album ( 12 sånger ).

The band found it harder to consolidate on their previous successes in the US, however, and lost out on more airplay at home when their record company took the decision to withdraw the album's planned third single Medicine in September 1997, putting out an entirely false press story that the lyrics could be interpreted as a critique of the then recently deceased Diana, Princess of Wales.

The film features the fictional pop band's performance of " Burning Rubber Tires ", which was lampooned in a sketch on Mystery Science Theater 3000 for its unintelligible lyrics, specifically the chorus, " hear the engines roll now ", which was interpreted by the MST3K cast as " hideous control now ", " idiot control now " and other variations.

* Some have interpreted the lyrics as being about a gang bang.

Johnson is quoted in The Billboard Book of Number One R & B Hits by Fred Bronson as saying that when she translated the original Japanese lyrics into English, she found out that the lyrics could be interpreted in three ways: as a man on his way to his execution, as someone trying to be optimistic despite life's trials, or as the story of an ended love affair.

Over the course of the song the sun slowly rises and the lyrics can be interpreted as a proclamation of the hope that as the sky clears after a difficult night, all the world's people will rise together to proclaim their survival to the sound of the church bells.

Mounir ’ s single “ Maddad ” from this album caused controversy, as its lyrics could be interpreted as a call for intercession from the prophet Muhammad.

The lyrics are also interpreted as dealing with anger issues.