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 ).

Critics of salsa romántica, especially in the late 80s and early 90s, called it a commercialized, diluted form of Latin pop, in which formulaic, sentimental love ballads were simply put to Afro-Cuban rhythms — leaving no room for classic salsa's brilliant musical improvisation, or for classic salsa lyrics that tell stories of daily life or provide social and political commentary.

The lyrics to " Snakes of Christ " tell of Glenn Danzig's view that the teachings of Christ have been perverted by religious groups.

The lyrics tell of a male protagonist ( usually identified as King Diamond himself by fans ) who lost the love of his life, who was a witch who was burnt at the stake by a Catholic priest.

The lyrics tell about a Satanic coven holding a sabbath, in which the protagonist emerges to perform a ritual to " put an evil curse on the priest who took the life of Melissa ".

The lyrics tell of the protagonist once again in sorrow about the loss of his love.

The lyrics tell the tale of Morgoth's demise.

The lyrics tell the story of this book.

* In the Black Sabbath song " Iron Man ", the lyrics tell the story of a man who time travels into the future of the world, and sees the apocalypse.

The film opens with the song " Trick or Treat for Halloween ," the lyrics of which tell the story's lesson – one must be generous on Halloween or face trouble.

The lyrics tell of the last days of the American Civil War and the suffering of the South.

Reinventing the Steel contains lyrics mostly about the band itself, as on " We'll Grind that Axe for a Long Time " ( where the band members tell about how they have kept it " true " throughout the years, while many of their peers " sucked up for the fame ") and " I'll Cast a Shadow " ( about Pantera's influence on the genre ).

The lyrics tell one of five different stories, but is individualized by each performer, often with updated jokes and audience participation.

The lyrics tell one of five different stories, but is individualized by each performer, often with updated jokes and audience participation.

The lyrics tell of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ( ANZAC ) experience fighting in the Battle of Gallipoli.

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?

In the lyrics, the narrator critiques the naive belief in urban legends by satirically having the vanishing hitchhiker tell the car driver to " stop telling lies " before he vanishes.

Known informally as " Charlie on the MTA ", the song's lyrics tell of a man named Charlie trapped on Boston's subway system, then known as the Metropolitan Transit Authority ( MTA ).

The song's lyrics tell of Charlie, a man who gets aboard an MTA subway car.

Although considered secular, the lyrics of zhungdra songs often tell Buddhist allegories, such as Yak Legbi Lhadar, in which the singer tells of his former life as a yak slaughtered in connection with a non-Buddhist ritual in the Gasa District.

The lyrics of " My Love Nell " tell the story of young man who courts a girl but loses her when she emigrates to America.

" According to Portnoy, Queensrÿche guitarist Mike Stone tried giving John Petrucci tips on playing guitar, leading Petrucci to write the lyrics: " Don't tell me what's in, tell me how to write ".

The lyrics of " My Way " tell the story of a man who, having grown old, reflects on his life as death approaches.

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 )

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 ).

A musical drama written in 1989, Grannia, story and lyrics by Thomas A.

" Moore and Henry Kuttner also have Northwest Smith hum the song in their 1937 short story " Quest of the Starstone ," which quotes several lines of lyrics.

The lyrics to the 1977 Rush song " Cinderella Man " on the A Farewell to Kings album are based on the story of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.

Reviewer David Rowley found its lyrics to " read like a picture story from a girl's comic ," and to depict the picture " of walking down a street and seeing a girl silhouetted in a window, not answering the telephone.

During his floor show, he loses a cuff that bears the lyrics of his song, but he rescues his act by improvising the story using an amalgam of word play, words in ( or made up of word parts from ) multiple languages and mock sentence structure while pantomiming.

It was based on lyrics by poet Alexandru Basarab ( actually a pen name for Adrian Hoajă ), which retold the story of Zalmoxis's existence.

The lyrics of the opening theme song summarized most of the story: " The land shall be under my foot ; nobody shall be equal to me.

Her next project was Sadie Thompson, a Vernon Duke / Howard Dietz musical adaptation of a W. Somerset Maugham short story, but Merman found she was unable to retain the lyrics and resigned twelve days after rehearsals began.

* Italian singer-songwriter Eros Ramazzotti has a song, " Lettera al futuro " (" Letter to the future "), included in his 1996 album Dove c ' è musica, whose lyrics are essentially a very concise retelling of the events in the story.

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.

Its format is progressive rock and string orchestra, using narration and leitmotifs to carry the story via rhyming melodic lyrics that express the feelings of the various characters.

" The song tells the story of the FBI investigation and relates it with song lyrics by Marilyn Manson and Eminem which some blamed for the Columbine High School massacre.

In 2005, Miller's life story was turned into a musical, Six Pictures Of Lee Miller, with music and lyrics by British composer Jason Carr.

It is possible to outline a story from this series of love lyrics, but the incidents are slight, and in this case, as in other Elizabethan sonnet-cycles, it is difficult to dogmatize as to what is the expression of a real personal experience, and what is intellectual exercise in imitation of Petrarch.

A 2007 book adaptation of the song's lyrics by Yarrow, Lipton, and illustrator Eric Puybaret gives the story a happier ending with a young girl ( presumed by reviewers to be Jackie Paper's daughter ) seeking out Puff to become her new companion.

The subject of the song is argued by some ; one side says the lyrics are not a continuation of the Melissa story but a tribute by the band to their past, while the other side sees it as the end of the Melissa story.

In an interview, Knowles commented: " The lyrics to the single ' Survivor ' are Destiny's Child's story, because we've been through a lot, ... We went through our drama with the members ... Any complications we've had in our 10-year period of time have made us closer and tighter and better.

Soderbergh and Greer will rewrite the lyrics of the songs to fit the story.

* In 1983, English-American rock group The Pretenders, released their song " Back on the Chain Gang ", featuring the lyrics " The phone, TV and the News of the World got into the house like a pigeon from hell ..." Written by the group's singer, Chrissie Hynde, the song was about the band's experience of losing their guitarist, James Honeyman-Scott, to a drug overdose, and these lines were in reference to the surviving members ' inability to escape the story at the time.