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.

Shanties from the Seven Seas includes lyrics that mention hoosiers.

Of note, the current lyrics do not mention either the Communist Party of China or Mao Zedong and the reversion of the lyrics was symbolic of the downfall of Hua Guofeng and the cult of personality of Mao and the ascendancy of Deng Xiaoping.

song " So Fast, So Numb " from the album New Adventures in Hi-Fi, the lyrics mention Kill Devil Hills.

The lyrics, however, make no mention of the place.

The harshest critic was Kazuo Shii, the chairman of the Communist Party of Japan, who strongly believed that " Japan " could not be derived from " Kimigayo " because the lyrics only mention wishing for the emperor for a long reign.

As for the sheet music itself, it displays a vocal arrangement with no mention of tempo and all of the lyrics in hiragana.

Though she is not the focus of the lyrics this time, because of her mention the song is known as a " Melissa song ".

The new soundtrack replaced Chan's song over the closing credits with the song " Kung Fu " by the band Ash, the lyrics of which mention Jackie Chan, as well as other Asian figures and characters ubiquitous in the west.

The lyrics do not mention the two administrative entities or the constitutional nations that make up the state, and end with the line " We are going into the future, together!

In the lyrics, the opening line's mention of the Ipiranga river refers to the stream near ( and now part of ) the city of São Paulo where Prince Dom Pedro, the future Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil, declared Brazilian independence from Portugal.

Several Judge Dread songs refer to Snodland or mention Snodland in the lyrics.

Referring to the party of the title of the song, the lyrics mention several punk and reggae groups: " The Wailers will be there, The Damned, The Jam, The Clash – Maytals will be there, Dr. Feelgood too.

The song's lyrics mention that they see the movie at a theater on 68th Street and Broadway.

" ( p. 85 ) Note that Bill Runs Above did not mention the lyrics of the songs, and while they are no doubt important, most lyrics of most songs employ vocables, syllable sounds such as " ya ", " hey ", and " loi " ( p. 86 ).

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.

The lyrics could only mention peace and work, as the country had just ended a civil war.

Despite this imagery, and despite comments made by backing vocalist Andrea Meyer styling herself the band's " satanic advisor ", the album's lyrics make scant mention of Satan or Satanism.

It is commonly believed to be the installment's " Aamund och Kettil-Song ", yet there is no mention of the two priests in the lyrics, the song rather refers to " de kristna " (" the Christians ") in general.

" Robert Christgau gave the album a one-star honorable mention rating, stating that he found the lyrics and vocals in general to be boring.

The lyrics mention God's provisions for comforting, and also encourage being a comfort to others.

Australian musicians have also made mention of Fitzroy in their lyrics.

After Joseph Stalin's death, the second stanza of the lyrics was changed by Vacys Reimeris to remove mention of Stalin.

The lyrics come from " Defence of Fort McHenry ", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.

The lyrics appear with permission from the Author :( 1st verse ): Harbor of a thousand ships / Forger of a nation's fleet / Gateway to the New World / Where ocean and river meet /( chorus ): Strength wrought from steel / And a people's fortitude / Such is the timeless legacy / Of a place called Newport News /( 2nd verse ): Nestled in a blessed land / Gifted with a special view / Forever home for ev ' ry man / With a spirit proud and true /( repeat chorus to fade )

The Libertines ' lyrics occasionally reference their idea of sailing on " the good ship Albion to Arcadia ".

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.

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

The stage musical, with music and lyrics by Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer, was adapted into a Technicolor motion picture at Paramount in 1959 by producer Norman Panama and director Melvin Frank, with a score by Nelson Riddle.

The live performances for Hole's 1994 and 1995 tours became notorious in the media due to Love's fraught emotional state, with Love often altering hurtful song lyrics toward herself, dedicating songs to Cobain and Pfaff, provoking fans, throwing guitars into the audience, and breaking into screaming fits onstage.

The Southern Cross was written into the lyrics of " Advance Australia Fair " in 1901: " Beneath our radiant Southern Cross "; the song was adopted as the Australian National Anthem in 1984.

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.

" In 1947, he took eleven songs George had written but never used, provided them with new lyrics, and incorporated them into the Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim and he later wrote comic lyrics for Billy Wilder's movie Kiss Me, Stupid -- although most critics believe his final major work was for the 1954 Judy Garland film, A Star Is Born ).

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

Then a different musician could change the song / beat / lyrics to their preference without getting into legal trouble.

The lyrics were originally in French and translated into English in 1906.

" Flow " is defined as " the rhythms and rhymes " of a hip-hop song's lyrics and how they interact – the book How to Rap breaks flow down into rhyme, rhyme schemes, and rhythm ( also known as cadence ).

Although not so indicated in the lyrics, the chorus is traditionally sung with a pause in the middle of the term " Cracker Jack ", and the second word ( pronounced " jacks ") is elided into the beginning of the next verse.

Sondheim converted long passages of dialogue, and sometimes just a simple phrase like " A boy like that would kill your brother ", into lyrics.

The production wove Spanish lyrics and dialogue into the English libretto.

In 1996, the story of Virginia's inquiry and the The Suns response was adapted into a holiday musical " Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus " by David Kirchenbaum ( music and lyrics ) and Myles McDonnel ( book ).

The lyrics of the song (" Hang up your chairs to better sweep / Clear the floor to dance / Shake the rug into the fireplace ") are adapted from a speech by Mother Ann Lee.

The anthem's evocative melody and lyrics have led to its widespread use as a song of revolution and its incorporation into many pieces of classical and popular music ( see below: Musical quotations ).

It was later turned into a vocal version called Where the Gentle Avon Flows, with lyrics by the poet Christopher Hassall.

As Bennet writes, “ the fact of language itself can also play a crucial role in informing the way in which song lyrics are heard and the forms of significance which are read into them ”.

Feridun Zaimoglu, one of Germany ’ s leading literary figures, describes the Turkish most hip hop artists employ as ‘ Kanak Sprak .’ ‘ Kanak Sprak ’ makes a direct reference to local racism in Germany This creolized Turkish-German spoken by the disenfranchised youth of the hip-hop generation is characterized as sentences without commas, full stops, capital letters, and any kind of punctuation as well as frequent switches between Turkish and German Kanak Sprak alone, without even delving into the lyrics, sets Turkish hip hop apart from pure imitation of American music and makes it more meaningful for its Turkish listeners.

He collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on the long-running Broadway musicals My Fair Lady and Camelot, with book and lyrics by Lerner, both of which were made into films.

The demo sessions of the songs from Seasons End with Fish vocals and lyrics can be found on the bonus disc of the remastered version of Clutching at Straws, while the lyrics found their way into various Fish solo albums such as his first solo album, Vigil In a Wilderness of Mirrors, some snippets on his second, Internal Exile and even a line or two found its way to his third album, Suits.