The title of the project calls attention to his roots in Aleppo, but the music has almost no lyrics, and nothing that links it explicitly to the war inside Syria.
Almost every lyric is brutal.
"That's how almost every lyric on the album was written, in that weird, subconscious back-door way".
Chinese poetry is almost exclusively lyric, meditative, and elegiac, and rarely does any poem exceed 100 lines most are little longer than Western sonnets; many are only quatrains.
Robert Gray continued the tradition of spare, almost Imagistic lyric verse in such volumes of his as Piano (1988) and Certain Things (1993).
Even though the audience knew almost every lyric, the open space still allowed Mr. Miller's voice to fill the audience with comfort.
Potter looked light, untroubled, almost lyric.
Almost lyric in their perfection, sometimes escapist, but never small-minded, they offer what Adorno called "the dream of a world where things could be otherwise".
In U2: The Name of Love, published in Italy last year, Andrea Morandi laboriously extracts Biblical allusions from almost every U2 lyric.
There's some more rapping on "1994," not good, but easily forgivable: this is a smart song, built almost entirely of lyric fragments from mid-'90s Joe Diffie hits.
