Sentence examples for absurd lyrics from inspiring English sources

You can see these roots in the culture: whilst there are lively rock, metal and trance music scenes, during weddings many people dance to "Ankara Havasi", a style of central Anatolian psychedelic folk music with very absurd lyrics.

The best songs are those where mundane or absurd lyrics are coupled with deadly serious rock attitude – "Christians in Love", an anthem about the wedding night of two people who have never had sex, made me cry with laughter.

Absurd lyrics still abound ("Your colour seems to flower from your hissing tongue, your livery of siblings cut from saffron cloth") but whatever your view on prog rock, this is an unexpected treat.

Mostly, it was Michael Stipe's fragile vocals and his absurd "word-salad" lyrics that drove me away.

It has an odd, slightly serpentine vocal melody (it sounds a bit like an adapted madrigal), and the lyrics are absurd and somehow touching.

The New York Times also covered the song, noting that "It has an odd, slightly serpentine vocal melody (it sounds a bit like an adapted madrigal), and the lyrics are absurd and somehow touching".

And in the foreground, just barely, the deceptively sweet singing voice of Satomi Matsuzaki, bringing an uneasy calm to lyrics that court the absurd.

When Michaels's first novel, "Fugitive Pieces," appeared in 1996, this technique — "lyric fiction" is an absurd term, but is there a better one?

Instead, the material drawn from the forthcoming Morrison Hotel album featured more direct, earthy lyrics, even including bouts of absurd scatting on the infectious "Roadhouse Blues"s.

Like many of the speakers, Mr. Kline spoke of Mr. Green's strange ability to spin absurd thoughts into graceful and often hilarious lyrics for songs, 17 of which were sung during the two-hour ceremony.

Maybe the whole point of rock 'n' roll is to belie a mopey lyric like this one with an almost absurd onslaught of music.