The song "Transparency Is the New Mystery" passes for simplicity in Stern's world, and features clearer lyrics than past tracks.
The trick, Ms. Grant said, is to move people to anger, or to tears, while steering clear of lyrics that sound as if cribbed from a pamphlet.
But, of course, as Eleanor Alexander makes clear in "Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow," Paul and Alice, both children of slaves, lived, loved and wrote under very different conditions than the Brownings.
On the album "700 Miles" (Bar/None), her voice is clear, her lyrics direct and her music poised and tuneful, with understated folk-rock arrangements that ride easily on her acoustic guitar.
His snark is offset by clear-eyed lyrics, Wikipedia references, and Strokesian riffs, all on display at Bowery Ballroom (Sept . 15.
The German tenor Christoph Pregardien's light, clear, honeyed lyric tenor voice is ideally suited to Baroque music, the repertory with which he has had his most success.
"Your guitar, it sounds so sweet and clear," the lyric goes, a vivid confession from someone in love above all with listening.
I hope you steer clear of that lyric, Hallmark, because when the lyrics to "Deck the Halls" were translated from Gaelic and published in English back in the 1800s, the word "troll" meant "sing in the round".
It's clear from the lyrics that Sermon has no idea what he's rapping along with, and he couldn't care less.
She told me that it has "clear but simple lyrics, is a lot about the melody, and also having a little bit of melancholy or a darker sense to it, to not make it too sugary or too bubblegum".
