Sentence examples for dry lyrics from inspiring English sources

Tillman peppered the show with droll observations, the same that make up his songwriting, especially on his second album, I Love You Honeybear, where the distance between his angelic vocals and detached, dry lyrics is most pronounced.

She hides her strength in dry lyrics that present a narrator who hopes for the best while seeing something less impressive around her: "Cool babies with soft operations holding my hand, throwing coins in my cup / Dusty numbers and public relations tell me to sit there and just shut up".

Gray and Rix were together again in a revival of Dry Rot (Lyric, 1988).

The drumming is as important as the dry ice; the lyrics are as important as Mr. Coyne's proprietary ambles around the stage.

Theater and concert audiences have always indulged his excesses — his wild range from baritone to falsetto, his eagerness to wring each lyric dry, the slightly unhinged quality he can take on when the music overcomes him — and, make no mistake, these are integral to his power as a performer.

It's a win-win: we love his perplexity when the lyrics run dry.

Once he moved on from the secretary general role to became chairman of Mencap, he was able to resume his theatrical career with a revival of Dry Rot at the Lyric theatre in 1989.

As the musicians explored her largely unknown catalog, Ms. Metcalf's dry, understated singing allowed the lyrics to speak for themselves.

Click here to watch A stool, lots of dry ice and some filthy lyrics about surfboards: all this year's Grammys show needed to ignite was the king and queen of modern music, who performed Drunk in Love.

No one wrings a ballad dry quite like Humphries, and his lyrics, always good, have slimmed into sleek, allusive poetry.

Lazarus is obviously not going to be a glitzy dry ice, hydraulics and painfully literal lyrics affair.