" 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 ).

The same technique is also noted in the book How to Rap, where diagrams are used to show how the lyrics line up with the beat – " stressing a syllable on each of the four beats gives the lyrics the same underlying rhythmic pulse as the music and keeps them in rhythm ... other syllables in the song may still be stressed, but the ones that fall in time with the four beats of a bar are the only ones that need to be emphasized in order to keep the lyrics in time with the music ".

Teaming with James Horner and Mariah Carey, Jennings wrote the lyrics for the central song in How The Grinch Stole Christmas, " Where Are You Christmas?

Frank Henry Loesser () ( June 29, 1910 – July 28, 1969 ) was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics and music to the Broadway hits Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others.

He wrote the music and lyrics for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ( 1961 ), which ran for 1, 417 performances and won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and for which he received two more Tonys.

Loesser received Tony Awards for music and lyrics for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Guys and Dolls.

He was nominated for the Tony Award for book, music and lyrics for The Most Happy Fella and as Best Composer for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

She played a new song titled " How Many Times Have You Broken My Heart " and explained that it originated from newly-found Hank Williams lyrics she was asked to put to music.

* 1962: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – Book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert, music and lyrics by Frank Loesser.

** How Now, Dow Jones – Book by Max Shulman, music by Elmer Bernstein, lyrics by Carolyn Leigh.

* A fishbowl ( referring to the lyrics to the song " Wish You Were Here ": " How I wish, how I wish you were here / We're just two lost souls / Swimming in a fishbowl ")

The song " Take Me to the Clouds Above " featured lyrics from " How Will I Know " from Whitney Houston's self-titled album set to a sample from " With or Without You " from U2's The Joshua Tree album.

The studio received so much mail about " How Will I Know My Love " ( lyrics by Tom Adair, music by Frances Jeffords and William Walsh ), that Walt Disney issued it as a single, and gave Funicello ( somewhat unwillingly ) a recording contract .< ref name =" interview ">

" How High the Moon " is a jazz standard with lyrics by Nancy Hamilton and music by Morgan Lewis.

) as a way of dissociating himself from everything around him, and was used as the central lyrics of How To Disappear Completely, released in their following album, Kid A.

The lyrics relate the plight of a seventeen-year-old taunted by accusations that feelings for his / her beau are " puppy love ", ending with the refrain " How can I ever tell them this is not a puppy love?

* How Happy Is the Bride with lyrics by Edward Heyman

" Lewis " is musically a punky sequel to Pablo Honeys " How Do You " but the lyrics may point to " Just " from The Bends, both serving as a warnings to seemingly oblivious friends on the verge of breakdown.

Her lyrics for Broadway shows include Peter Pan, Wildcat, Little Me, and How Now, Dow Jones.

" The song " And Shot Each Other " from The Fiancée fades out into a Sacred Harp choir singing the song ' Child of Grace ', which features the lyrics " How happy is a child of grace, who feels his sins forgiven / This world, he cries, is not my place / I seek a place in Heaven.

Irving Berlin cited the lyrics in part of his song, " Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning "; from the musical, This Is the Army:

He co-wrote the lyrics for a hit tune, " Oh How I Laugh When I Think How I Cried About You ", and performed in several successful comedy stage shows in the early 1920s.

The Tragically Hip's song " Fifty Mission Cap ", from their 1992 album Fully Completely, features Barilko's story and the lack of another Leafs championship with the lyrics " Bill Barilko disappeared, that summer, he was on a fishing trip.

The book is by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, choreography by Peter Gennaro, scenery, costumes and lighting by William and Jean Eckart, musical direction by Jack Elliott, and the production was directed by Mr. Abbott.

If one of Mr. Rodgers' melodies seemed to deserve a better fate than interment in Boston or the obscurity of a Broadway failure, Mr. Hart was likely to deck it out with new lyrics to give it a second chance in another show.

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 ''.

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

It was produced by Playwrights Horizons with book by John Jiler, music and lyrics by Ray Leslee.

It was directed by Glenn Casale with original music and lyrics by Ben Schatz.

The third a cappella musical to appear Off-Broadway, In Transit, premiered 5 October 2010 and was produced by Primary Stages with book, music, and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan, and Sara Wordsworth.

A book of Lerner's lyrics entitled A Hymn To Him, edited by British writer Benny Green, was published in 1987.

At the time of Lerner's death, he had just begun to write lyrics for The Phantom of the Opera, and was replaced by Charles Hart.

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.

` Ali ibn al-Husayn ul-Isfahānī (), also known as Abu-l-Faraj or, in the West, as Abulfaraj ( 897 – 967 ) was an Iranian scholar of Arab-Quraysh origin who is noted for collecting and preserving ancient Arabic lyrics and poems in his major work, the Kitāb al-Aghānī.

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.

The lyrics were written in honor of Green Beret James Gabriel, Jr., the first Native Hawaiian who died in Vietnam, who was executed by the Viet Cong while on a training mission on April 8, 1962.

His lyrics with diverse themes, mostly following a somewhat modernized version of the " aşık " ( wandering folk poets ) tradition were heavily marginal in the popular music scene of 1980s which was mostly dominated by love-themed lyrics.

Black metal was originally used as a term for extreme metal bands with Satanic and anti-Christian lyrics ; today, the most common lyrical theme is opposition to Christianity and other organized religions.

Not only was Bathory's music dark, fast, heavily distorted, lo-fi and with anti-Christian lyrics and imagery, Quorthon was also the first to use the " shrieked " vocals that came to define black metal.

" Smile ", composed originally for Modern Times ( 1936 ) and later set to lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons, was a hit for Nat King Cole in 1954.

One of his major works was to bring " Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau " ( the Welsh national anthem ) back in Brittany and create lyrics in Breton.

In the celebrations marking the return of democracy in March 1990 at Santiago's Estadio Nacional de Chile, the anthem was played in its present melody, raised to F Major ( the Royal Musical Official Version of the anthem ) which is the original melody of the second anthem by Carnicer, but using the 1847 lyrics as text, save for the original 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.

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.