"What makes this level interesting is its ability to step outside of traditional musical concerns like notes, chords, and bars and engage with one of the most important elements of vocal music: the lyrics."
"What makes a song great? It's usually a combination of things: the melody, the lyrics, the rhythm."
"When you listen to a song and then you hear the lyric and you relate to it, it makes so much more sense."
"I see a little silhouetto of a man. Scaramouche, Scaramouche, can you do the Fandango?"
"I could drink of you and still be on my feet... it's absolutely brilliant lyrics with the most beautiful melody, and it just makes you cry."
"Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, I'm begging of you please don't take my man." - Dolly Parton
"I love that lyric, 'Shout if you want my heart, it is an open invitation.'"
"It's giving 'This is me trying,' yes, it's giving 'This is me trying.'"
"I thought the lyrics and music were just amazing."
"Great lyrics are great lyrics because there are some talk about the most relatable."
"He just got into a situation where he had a lyric that rubbed people the wrong way."
"That's a great song with wholesome lyrics of a guy that really believes in America First."
"Music has been therapy for me. If you listen to my lyrics, I talk about pain."
"Two hearts in one home." - A possible insight into relationships beyond the obvious.
"Maybe it's hatred I spew, maybe it's food for the spirit." - Eminem
"There's quite the transition not only with the musical aspect but the lyrical aspect as well."
"His life encapsulates the essence of his own lyrics: 'The highest human act is to inspire.'"
"I'm the type to kill a pacifist, or chemical combustion, I'm the analyst of metaphors and similes."
"Every lyric, every bar is a freezer, I apply the pressure and y'all know I never ease up."
"A good beat carries you, but sometimes lyrical lyrics will carry you."
"Isn’t it rich? Are we a pair?" - Stephen Sondheim
"Once you get the notion of, ‘Isn’t it rich? Aren’t we schmucks not to be together?’ I mean, you get that tone, that takes a very short period of time." - Stephen Sondheim
"But where are the clowns? Quick, send in the clowns." - Stephen Sondheim
"Lyrics and imagery hit hard, that's what makes it heavy."
"I'm rubbish at I'm normally I just normally make the lyrics myself up."
"The lyricism is what pushes the boundary within twice's discography."
"Sensitive, scrutinize the way we live for you and I, enemies shook my hand."
"The delivery of the third verse is the brilliance for me."
"This music where you listen to it and it's very complex and intricate and you have to like study the [ __ ] lyrics if you want to sing along."
"The compositional elements, the aesthetic elements, what is it saying in the lyrics, what is the meaning behind it?"
"You Never Know, one of the best pre-choruses."
"Fiona Apple's bold and raw musical and lyrical style."
"The lyrics truly fit the majesty of this song."
"It's a swaying alternative rocker with some of the sweetest lyrics and vocals that I've heard all year long."
"If lyrics don't matter, don't say nothing at all."
"I love when people read them because we've everybody read the lyrics to say happy home."
"Let's all sing actually think about it what do we die for? With my wrist he actually does definitely want that."
"When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, it's not chops, thankfully."
"The vast majority of these songs included some words that are just very basic and essential to basic expression."
"When a song is this damn good, why would you want to [save your tears for another day]?"
"After each listen, after each lyric that I go through, the diss gets better and better."
"Drake said, 'And she don't do it for the men, men never notice, you just do it for yourself, you the effing coldest.'"
"Birds in the sky, you know how I feel. Sun in the sky, you know how I feel. Breeze driftin' all by, that's not a little bit, girl. A little bit of a lie, I'm gonna like Kindle."
"Different hoes in different area codes, taking off their clothes."
"By the second or third chorus we already were picking up on the words, just like the feeling that that song gives me is just like pure serotonin."
"Kill haters, call the docs, patience when I'm stuck in prey surveillance, watch my patients, take your plate right off the table, tell 'em wait here, wait is waiting."
"I'm getting down when I'm live on the beat kinda like ice cream, my lyrics are sweet."
"Poppy's 'Voicemail': banger alert! Totally nuts on the lyrics, loving every second."
"Been a good girl but instead you chose a real world. Yeah, you've always been a Savage."
"A pretty grimy underground hip-hop banger with lots of esoteric and cryptic lyrics."
"This song hits hard lyrically and sonically."
"My rhyme I send it through yeah my brain stretch kamasutra."
"It's so much more than the lyrics to a certain point, and that's how it connects globally."
"It's a gift to me, I don't just spit flames lyrically but literally." - Dan Bull
"You ain't got [ __ ] on me, [ __ ], you ain't got [ __ ] on me, [ __ ], let's go!"
"It's anthemic chorus and mature lyrics about Eminem being a better man in beef, mainly his beef with Ja Rule, are great and well-executed."
"Super Unknown lyrically would be seen as some of Cornell's darkest lyrics."
"Thank you, Disney, for providing these lyrics that make my life a living hella."
"I always thought this song was so sweet to be honest because the lyrics literally say like, 'Will you love me? Will you love me forever? Do you need me? Will you never leave me?'"
"You can actually get a lot more nuance in your lines if you're thinking about how the lyrics work with the melody."
"Some of the verses are sufficiently gross as to make a sailor go beyond blushing."
"The end theme just the lyrics there are like beautiful like if you actually read them."
"Don't you cry tonight, there's a heaven above you baby."
"BTS actually has real raw talent, a real story, a real struggle, like their own music. Impressive lyrics are deep too."
"All my grinding, all my life. Sacrifice, hustle, pay the price, wanna slice, got to roll the dice. That's why all my life I've been grinding all my life." - Adrian Peterson
"If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
"All of the greatest rappers you heard every make, just like a mission I make it happen my lyrics is cold spitting my bars direct from the soul."
"The lyrics and the cadence will always be 10 out of 10 for me."
"Don't bore me with the glory, hallelujah, truth be like fooly, stole a bunch of Huey, I knew he had new G, who he?"
"I can see paradise by the dashboard light."
"Pray to catch you whispering. I pray you catch me listening."
"Maybe you want a song with actual lyrics in it, maybe you want a jingle for your YouTube channel; Sunno AI is awesome at that."
"I'm not a stranger to the dark, hide away, they say, 'cause we don't want your broken parts."
"I love how clever these lyrics are and how they play into this whole entire concept."
"'Cause we all just wanna be big rockstars"
"I'm a piece, it'll be no set go, don't say it's gone, I'm in the wrecked off."
"See my motor, watch me reverse it."
"Blessing on them haters, do the most on the way about the Raaz toast."
"The lyrics are so fast and specific and hard to say."
"The lyrics 'love you more than those [__] before' aren't just words; they're a window into the soul."
"Lyrics can salvage a song for me like a mediocre song will become good if the lyrics are just incredible to listen to."
"To listen to the music and feel the pulse, the rhythm move your body was one thing, but to really hear the lyrics and absorb the message was to be totally hooked."
"It's beautiful, I'm lost in the lyrics"
"But as we kept going, it kept getting better, and I really loved how they debuted with positive, empowering lyrics. Like, I really enjoyed that. I was like, 'Okay, y'all are speaking to me. Y'all speaking to me. I like that.'"
"Sometimes you just need a lyric that just hits you."
"Their lyrics got more subtle as they got more experienced."
"Even the imagery of her lyrics is fascinating. 'My flowers came back as thorns, and I boarded up the windows, and my lover made me fire to keep me warm.'"
"Sex in a bottle, sex in a bottle, sex yeah."
"Go tell the brown Joe's in town, yeah."
"Drake's making a dis song but it's like Drop and give me 50 like I could say that randomly while like walking or like I'm on the house I'll be like dropping give me 50 50 push-ups so push-ups are like that like that is 100 times better 100%."
"My Generation’s most famous lyric 'I hope I die before I get old' exemplifies the song's confrontational sentiment."
"Oh, she's sweet but a psycho, a little bit psycho."
"Our Lady of Sorrows focuses heavily on building the characters of the demolition lovers with its lyrics painting a picture of a man doing his best to convey his thoughts that he and his lover are perfect for one another..."
"Too sexy for this chain, too sexy for your game, too sexy for this Fame, yeah yeah."
"I appreciated that very detailed lyrics."
"RI me out the plastic I've been acting brand new"
"I just want to be loved, yep. So I like their music and they have some fun lyrics."
"She's a maniac, maniac on the floor."
"Lights on, but you're not home. Your mind is not your own."
"How does a bastard orphan son of a..."
"The Len song held no threats, no calls for retribution."
"The lyrics are deeply relatable and like specific."
"I think it's one of my best lyrics telling of how the small villages and Rural communities can die out when the lifeblood youth move away to the big cities"
"Isn't it funny how a bear likes honey? Buzz buzz buzz."
"Forget the laughs, I'm Walling in this hole, y'all to think an Outcast member fell, I'm picking Dre three thousand off the floor."
"Don't drink Omega, let me rock your trigger finger, never on delay when my team always on go. By my notes, I tell my Harlem [__] get at her, call word if that idol. Now they gotta tell this [__] bye adios."
"I like the girls with the boom, I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom."
"♪ You've got it right, you knew all along ♪"
"♪ 'Cause I was strewn across your living room, but you never did know what to do ♪"
"♪ I try not to ride that train, but when it finally happens, I run away ♪"
"♪ You, you've got it right, you've got it babe ♪"
"♪ Don't send me crazy, so I'll just forget my place ♪"
"The great thing about Steely Dan artistically is their lyrics are dark, their lyrics are like knowing, they sort of postmodel Take On The World."
"The lyrics are so life-affirming, they're visceral."
"I like songs like this. Those lines hit, don't you know what I mean?"
"Pumped up kicks melody, pumped up kicks lyrics."
"...and obviously lyrically I mean it's just it's just so sad and beautiful at the same time."
"Fans of 'How Deep Is Your Love' often sing 'I really need to know,' but the actual lyric is 'I really mean to learn.'"
"Marley's songs mix direct tough or compassionate lyrics with a magnificent gift for melody."
"When it come to lyrics that are clever, ain't nobody out there better."
"From the window to the wall, guys. From the window to the wall."
"Words that he promotes through songs with beats behind them, they aren't random, he tells you, as the evidence will show."
"Troubling lyrics from the hit song 'bad guy' by Billy Eilish: 'I'm that bad type, make your mama's sad type, make your girlfriend mad tight, might seduce your dad tight.'"
"I've lived my entire 25-year-old life up until just now thinking the words to 'We Three Kings' was 'We Three Kings of Orin To' bearing gifts instead of 'We Three Kings of Ori and Our' bearing gifts."
"The chorus thing like I get it, but I can't, me, no singing. I cannot remember [ __ ] lyrics to save my life, dude."
"We're singing in the car getting lost upstate, autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place."
"Oh, it's so good. It's the simplicity in the lyrics."
"What is the smartest or most clever lyric of all time? 'If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.'"
"I could wile away the hours conferring with the flowers, consulting with the rain. And my head I'd be scratchin' while my thoughts were busy hatchin'. If I only had a brain."
"The Hellion electric eye kicks things off so well, I think the lyrics alone are really cool, nice prescient warning about the dangers of the surveillance state."
"It's so funny how her words and lyrics can put you right back in a place where you've been and you understand and it's just I love it I love it."
"She's really taking us through the Journey, not only sonically but the lyrics are great."
"I love that it's lyrically dense, a lot of words, a lot of... this one feels a lot like a poem to me, but kind of set over like a sexy vibe."
"Shouty Daz Dillinger, holiday child in a minute, man we go, hey you."
"When you're strange, faces come out of the rain."
"The lyrics here underlined the dangers of simplifying how we view the world."
"The lyrics are like the most profoundly personal things you've ever heard."
"There goes my mind, there goes my mind 'cause there's magic in my bones."
"I have to say from this conversation everything you say and understanding the man that buster is put so much more meaning into the lyrics into the album and the records."
"He's so good with that and I think what also makes this part of the song work with the previous parts of the song is that a lot of the lyrics that you're hearing are also lyrics from previously in the song."
"As James Hetfield said so eloquently, nothing else matters."
"♪ Drown out the voices in the air ♪"
"♪ Picking the pieces up and building to the sky ♪"
"So come on feel the Noize, girls grab the boys, we get wow wow wow!"
"The lyrics are great, like there's little things I don't get but I love the, I love the bollocks, I love the all the British things in there, right, yeah, yeah, which you're catching, right, yeah."
"Andre 3000. Oh, Weezy, uh, there's a few. Ludacris, I'd put Ludacris up there. Lyrics just like, that could rap rap rap."
"What really makes it a staple is the defiant and empowering lyrics that remind you of how strong you are."
"...the lyrics pump you up with a story of fighting against the odds and standing up for yourself."
"It's among the best lyrics I've ever heard, much less gotten to work on."
"I don't know how to write Happy lyrics at all. I do think that the best songs of all time even the best love songs of all time have a little bit of sadness in them."
"I can't sing you'll find me on my tallest tiptoes it doesn't care for this song yet knows all the words."
"Just listen when I spit, I'll be your Santa Claus ho ho ho, you have everything on your Christmas list."
"Yo, it's the green machine, gonna rock the town without being seen." - Lyrics from the song "Ninja Rap"
"I'm feeling like Beyonce, roll up the partition please, bitch."
"I just wanted to make something hard. The chorus gotta be hard, like how some of the verses are. 'More money, more murder. Mo' homicide.'"
"'We can change the world, rearrange the world, it's dying,' and I remember listening to those lyrics and being very drawn to that because that's how I felt."
"The BBC banned 'I Am The Walrus' not for its anti-establishment tone but because it contains the word 'nickers'."
"It's the way you would say it and I always think, you know, the conversational lyrics are kind of more of what I enjoy writing or at least what I enjoy singing."
"Nas is Like... his lyrics are so colorful, so visual, so real."
"Her lyrics have double meanings or triple meanings or secret meanings and it's fun."
"The more beef than the less bread, quiet women get the best head. Rappers doing dope went from trying to be like Hope, now they'd rather rock and roll and be like Less Insanity."
"Andre is known for his amazing lyrics, so you know how loved you have to be to make an album with no rapping and still hit number one."
"Great music when you hear the lyrics."
"The more specific and detailed your lyrics are, the more relatable they become."
"I just really like the hook. 'You're just a stranger, I know everything about.'"
"Lyrically, not many have even come level with him and let alone surpassed him, but Tupac was something else."
"The main reason behind setting this threshold properly is to make every single word from the lyrics equally audible."
"Punk rock lyrics have always intrigued me... Us versus them, me versus society, always seemed a little silly once you become an adult."
"Never had that lying phone jumping I'd be crack cold pumping I'mma turn my pumpkin whipping up a dumpling chilling with a ratchet she flicky with her tongue a lot of [__] chat [__] talking about they run things my four or five done things had [__] forrest gumping."
"Lead singer Morrissey's more subdued vocals and abrasive, existential lyrics make the record bluntly incisive to this day."
"Knowing the lyrics, knowing your lyrics is everything."
"If everybody had an ocean across the USA then everybody be like you see they wearing that back R SOS too a bushy bushy BL to SE USA."
"The lyrics are simple and cut straight to the point."
"Aim at Draco, but she looked like Rihanna. That's not my problem, I just gave Barbados."
"I think from a lyrical perspective it's actually I think one of the strongest metal records ever if you actually listen to what Randi is saying and the way he poetically put that experience in and the songs are fantastic keep it up."
"...hearing Tyler lay down some of his most compelling and well-written lyrical performances is over the godly loops of two producers who we only ever dreamed of hearing him team up with..."
"Every other bar, you tuck a grip, I dumped a fifth. SL your [__], seeing this [__]."
"Smack rapper only smack rapper that you know is snack rappers got bars I can hang with the backpackers."
"To the world mm oh yeah yeah I like all right guys hey Jess Jess on the beat somebody keep an eye on that Alma yo is this sue Italy well well well."
"This love is bad for me" - "Bad for Me". Check it out. It's everywhere. Please.
"But I made you look, 'Cause I'm about to make a scene" - "Made You Look" by Meghan Trainer.
"You're a sky full of stars" - Coldplay
"As it was, You know it's not the same" - "As it was" by Harry Styles.
"Just guess who's back, back, back, Back again, gain, gain, Shady's back, back, back, Tell a friend" - Eminem
"the 30 pit the home what was the second chance he don't want to work for real he Wanna Know"
"Written on these walls are the colors that I can't change."
"Sometimes to me, lyrics can still come up short in delivering the core feeling of a song, and just belting it out like Ed does here hits me even harder."
"I always thought the reason for NASA's beat selection is because he wants his lyrics to be the most important part of the story. That's exactly what he said when I interviewed him."
"The lyrics were meaningful. They were short. They were delivered quick. And you know it was totally relevant to that time. In fact, I think it's relevant for teenagers in any time."
"Cut my life into pieces, this is my last resort. Suffocation, no breathing. Don't give a [__]." (Papa Roach lyrics)
"If people really sat down and put his [__] like read his lyrics as poetry, you'd be blown away."
"They were pop songs that actually said something."
"His rhymes are just unbelievable and then the beats are just so cool to listen to."
"Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake."
"The lyrics are said to reflect the singer's criticism of current society and hope for a better place and time in which complexes are replaced by individual freedom and a life of mutual support and sympathy."
"The lyrics are straightforward, but the sound is fantastic."
"I feel like J Cole's lyrics tend to go pretty deep."
"Now, when Fab say 'I wipe off my tears before I put on my gloves, 'cause it hurt when you gotta kill a [ __ ] you love.'"
"Yeah, my freestyle lyrics gon make you holler."
"When it come to lyrics, people recognize I'm quite dope."