He'd like to establish a lyrics site with user-generated translations of songs: Find that Senegalese song and click for the Mandarin translation, polished by a native speaker, to roll along with the playback just like the supertitles at the Metropolitan Opera.
The Crown-in-Council established set lyrics for "O Canada" in Canada's two official languages.
The group was then charged with establishing official lyrics for each song.
Juxtaposed with the video's aesthetic, the lyrics establish a new kind of vanitas tradition.
Furthermore, the point of being a poet is to establish an "idiosyncratic lyric practice that can't be assimilated into the practice of others," a critic told me, adding that poetry derives from a writer's consideration of his own "sensual, moral, intellectual, aesthetic" concerns.
You may have downloaded that Cuban-Chinese rock band from the Morpheus site without paying, but the only way to get all that cool meta-information about each track, which lets you search for chords and lyrics, is to establish a relationship with the band by paying.
The earliest lyrics in the anthology establish the rhyme pattern that many casual listeners still associate with hip-hop.
"I Kissed A Girl" catapulted her to fame, and "its bi-curious lyrics effectively established Perry's dismissal of taboos in a way that none of her other singles could," Billboard previously noted.
In "Stan," an obsessive fan tries to establish some sort of relationship, however tenuous, with Eminem and winds up acting out Eminem's violent lyrics in communion.
