Here are some amazing moments: You Can't Go jangles like The Byrds after a doppio espresso marathon, Equipment is a song about being mentally (and physically) tripped-up by those "miles of dials" on all your equipment, although to be fair, "what can compare to the sound and the throb of the bass, cutting through at the flick of a knob?" is one of rock's great lyrical questions.
I don't know about you, but I'm awful at remembering the lyrics to songs, and I often find myself turning to Google search to answer my lyrical questions — and frequently, to lose arguments.
These poems serve as affirmations, too, in long, lyrical questions-and-answers that push on into the early morning, braving last call.
As with all songs written to be as epic as humanly possible there are some lyrical question-marks, not least with "the night is young until it's over" and the just plain odd, "I'll hold your hand with good intentions".
ANOTHER entry in the sporadic -- and purely imaginary -- "Beach Boys" series, so named in honor of the old group's lyrical question: "Wouldn't It Be Nice?" NEW YORK, Aug. 31 -- In a startling change of plans, senior Republican officials announced yesterday that they were canceling the last two days of their national convention, which had convened just hours earlier at Madison Square Garden.
In response to a rather lyrical question about the influence of legal blogs, which included a metaphor about trees falling in forests, the barrister and academic said:"The bar has been raised [for independent bloggers] not just by mainstream media but by new blogs".
The piece is a series of lyrical statements and questions that Walker asked herself: "I'm not an Other in some eyes / I think / and yet a black woman-artist-philosopher has a / calling card to announce when she has been stumbled upon / injured, ignored by the elite / over whom she strives to soar".
This assessment was itself contested by Călinescu, who argued that the lyrics in questions are "actually the acceptable ones", and that the awkward wordings "are entirely lost in lyrical fluency".
Tony Maglio from The Wrap also questioned her lyrical content, specifically criticizing the lyrics "I back it up, cause I don't give a fuck" and "I'm MC Hammer fly".
Questions about lyrical inspiration are deflected with a stock answer along the lines of "the music always comes first", but Leithauser's world-weary, defiant narrative voice is unmistakable.
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