"Devil's Pie" is a funk and hip hop diatribe with a lyrical theme concerning hip hop excess, and it is accompanied by P-Funk style harmonies and low-key singing by D'Angelo.
Woven between these chords are fragments of a lyrical theme, in tandem violin and cello lines.
Her second album sees her largely settled: on a style, bass-driven hip hop; and a lyrical theme, lust.
"So Long Self" is musically a power pop song with a lyrical theme revolving around a figurative breakup with one's self.
An emotional yearning or pleading frequently appears as a lyrical theme, in tracks such as "Yahweh", "Peace on Earth", and "Please".
It begins with a subdued, mournful theme in F minor, followed by a mellow, lyrical theme in F major, and both are subjected to variations.
Daniel Defoe's story, seemingly based on the real-life tale of Alexander Selkirk, was itself an embroidered fiction (one which will be evoked, for readers of a certain age, by the sadly lyrical theme of the 1964 French TV version of the story).
His conducting is not exaggerated, though, but sad, and when a consoling lyrical theme comes in, he all but reaches for heavenly hope.
All of these songs follow a similar lyrical theme and "helped shape Muddy Waters' image as the testosterone king of the blues", according to Gioia.
Unlike previous Converge releases, the songs on Axe to Fall do not have a central and consistent lyrical theme throughout the record.
