Sentence examples for flat lyrics from inspiring English sources

But Douglas M. Smith's tuneless music and Vernon L. Stefanic's meandering book and flat lyrics prove difficult to transcend.

Unfortunately, the wit of the book is not sustained in Marvin Hamlisch's soft, undistinguished score and Craig Carnelia's flat lyrics.

Mary's in India is a song about infidelity - Dido displays her sisterly devotion to a friend by shagging her boyfriend while she's off travelling - but the tune and the flat lyrics render even this topic mundane.

To compensate the members of his stammering tribe, Maxwell provides a lucky few of them with a song, often a pop parody with flat lyrics that allow their feelings to soar momentarily on off-key wings.

"Who I am with you is who I really want to be," he sings, a man drowning in the mundanity of a flat lyric — before adding with equal blandness.

New Year's Eve of that year they decided to work together, and three months later the duo were in Adamski's London flat recording lyrics to his ominous instrumental titled "The Killer".

The agonies of Jesus are terrible to behold, of course, but on a far more trivial level one of the agonies of "Jesus Christ Superstar" is the unhappy combination of Mr. Lloyd Webber's stick-in-your-head melodies and the often flat-footed lyrics they are wedded to.

Beck has been playing the tune in concert for at least a year, apparently coming to the conclusion that he can get away with a dynamically flat drone and lyrics that rhyme "cigarette" with "ziggurat".

The Scroggins' vocals are on the flat side, their lyrics few and repetitive, but that's beside the point: the title track and the bass mix of 'Insane', starring Renee's daughter, Nicole Nicholas, are still irresistibly funky.

But most of his songs feel formulaic and flat, with clunky, uninspiring lyrics.

If this were a show written by teen-agers, you might excuse the clumsy set design, flat singing, melodramatic book, dull lyrics, and dated score, but unfortunately that isn't the case.