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.

In 1982, Marrow met producer William Strong from Saturn Records, who recorded his first single, " Cold Wind Madness ", also known as " The Coldest Rap ", which became an underground success, becoming popular even though radio stations did not play it due to the song's hardcore lyrics.

The song's lyrics make a series of scurrilous allegations against a number of highly respected philosophers, usually with regard to their capacity or incapacity for imbibing intoxicating liquors.

On the other hand, Steven Pinker has observed that mondegreen mishearings tend to be less plausible than the original lyrics, and that once a listener has " locked in " to a particular misheard interpretation of a song's lyrics, it can remain unquestioned, even when that plausibility becomes strained.

" 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 ).

In 1985 Jennings joined with USA for Africa to record " We Are the World ", but he left the studio due to a dispute over the song's lyrics that were to be sung in Swahili.

The passage in which Meursault accepts his impending execution was read over the end of the song " Asa Phelps Is Dead " by The Lawrence Arms ; read by guitarist Chris McCaughan, the excerpt parallels certain themes in the song's lyrics by bassist Brendan Kelly.

The song's lyrics reflect the invasion of France by foreign armies ( from Prussia and Austria ) that were underway when it was written.

* The Official Website of Don McLean and American Pie provides the songwriter's own biography, lyrics and clues to the song's meaning.

Only the vowel O is featured in the song's lyrics ; no other vowels are used.

Opus Dei retained some of the original song's English lyrics, but was delivered in a musical style that left the meaning of the lyrics open to further interpretation.

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.

The song's lyrics explicitly allude to the depression and aural hallucinations that would hamper Wilson's health in the decade to come.

Many music videos do not interpret images from the song's lyrics, making it less literal than expected.

Eschewing any attempt to simulate performance or present a narrative, the clip shows Dylan standing in a city back alley, silently shuffling a series of large cue cards ( bearing key words from the song's lyrics ).

Other notable later examples of the non-representational style include Bill Konersman's innovative 1987 video for Prince's " Sign o ' the Times " – influenced by Dylan's " Subterranean Homesick Blues " clip, it featured only the text of the song's lyrics — the video for George Michael's " Freedom 90 " ( 1990 ), in which Michael himself refused to appear, forcing director David Fincher to substitute top fashion models in his place.

Cartman, dressed in a long wig to look like singer Geddy Lee, sings his own, personal, version of the song's lyrics prompting the usual outrage from Kyle.

Here's a sample of the song's lyrics:

The song's lyrics were penned by Lewie's friend and fellow Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts member, Keef Trouble.

" The song's lyrics includes lines such as " You could throw a twenty in a vat of hot oil / When he jump in after it, watch him boil.

The song's lyrics portray a dystopian vision of racial tension, violence, alcoholism, and boredom.

The song's deliberately suggestive ( but oblique ) lyrics such as " I'm the tomcat and you're my li ' l ol ' pussy " and " Wild and warm is my pussy / My pussy is where it's at " are common for the genre, a tradition followed in R & B.

The song's lyrics expressed feelings of dislike for the town and some of its inhabitants.

The oak in the song's title refers to the wood from which British warships were traditionally made in the age of sail.

The song's title adorns the top of the Shankly Gates, which were unveiled on 2 August 1982 in memory of former manager Bill Shankly.

Even though the group had secured permission to use a sample of 4 bars of an orchestral rendition of " The Last Time " by The Rolling Stones, it was successfully argued that the group had relied too heavily on the song's original vocal melody as well, and they were forced to surrender copyright and royalties to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

This was due to the song's influence on The Kinks, who, like the Who at the time, were produced by Shel Talmy, with the Kinks on the Pye label and the Who on Brunswick.

The song's popularity also spread across national borders, and verses were translated into other languages.

Their recording of Bei Mir Bist Du Schön became a favorite of the Nazis, until it was discovered that the song's composers were of Jewish descent.

Even with the song's success, Verdine White claims that band is not a disco band, saying: " I guess you could say we were at the party but didn ’ t get on the dance floor.

) The Crystals sang the song's repetitive verses, though it is unclear if these singers were the ' original ' Crystals or The Blossoms.

While she was performing background on The Drifters's recording of " Mexican Divorce ," Warwick's voice and star presence were noticed by the song's composer, Burt Bacharach, a Brill Building songwriter who was writing songs with many other songwriters, including lyricist Hal David.

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.

The song also cemented Ralph Siegel and Bernd Meinunger, the song's composers, into German Eurovision tradition, writing 18 Eurovision songs between them before and after " Ein bißchen Frieden ", 13 of which were for Germany.

Understanding the band's limitations, the song's lyrics, composed by TV Smith, were likeably self-deprecating:

In 1950 ( after India's independence ), the song's first two verses were given the official status of the " national song " of the Republic of India, distinct from the national anthem of India, Jana Gana Mana.

The song's origins not only come from television, but were also inspired by various other things, including Rush Limbaugh, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, and Araya's wife.

The title song's lyrics were written by Norman Gimbel, and its music was composed by Charles Fox.

According to Numan, the song's lyrics were inspired by an incident of road rage:

The song's lyric refers to conditions in the Southern states in the winter of early 1865 (" We were hungry / Just barely alive "); the Confederacy is starving and on the verge of defeat.

And once the instrumentals were complete, John and Lazzara would take lines from their notebooks and put them together for the song's lyrics.

The song's authorship is disputed ; one account first published in 1890 claims the lyrics were a collective effort by Union soldiers and that the lyrics also referred humorously to Sergeant John Brown of the Second Battalion, Boston Light Infantry Volunteer Militia.

At the time of the song's release Ray was alive and details of his poor health were not public knowledge.

During performances of " Jordan, Minnesota ", the band would reach a point where they would prolong a discordant, creepy noise while Albini would perform an intense pantomime as though he were one of the children from the song's lyrics being raped.

Jagger and Richards claimed to have never heard the song before and when they discovered the similarity prior to the song's release, were flummoxed as to how the songs could be so similar.