Sentence examples for lyrics use from inspiring English sources

The songs lyrics use an epithet heard frequently in rap and hip-hop songs, as when Common boasts to Kanye West, "I'm about to win the Grammys now".

While this sounds perfectly plausible, the real lyrics use more complicated grammar – and a fancier adverb: "O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming".

Goldman's book and Mr. Sondheim's music and lyrics use the reunion of showgirls from a fictitious Ziegfeld Follies-style revue to juxtapose the dazzling heyday of Depression-era Broadway with the decades of ambivalence and regret that followed.

How do the lyrics use the much-hyped, but ultimately lackluster crash of the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 into the planet Jupiter as a metaphor for a fizzling relationship?

Its lyrics use warfare imagery in detailing a romance.

Carry Out's lyrics use the term 'carry out' as metaphor for sex.

Back in the old days lyrics used to be richer, with strong imagery.

Karl Hyde's "found" lyrics (using snippets of overheard conversations) are affecting, fractured evocations of the disorientations of modern urban life.

More than once, I've heard the show's own lyrics used to explain how "Into the Woods" devotees feel about the adaptation.

It led to a hilarious, if irreverent, meme: Twitter users imagined the pontiff as a rapper and gave him appropriate lyrics using the hashtag #popebars.

He created a special instrumental version of one of his album tracks specifically for the application and is currently holding a contest in which his fans can rewrite the lyrics using a maximum of eight tweets.