Sentence examples for mere lyrics from inspiring English sources
After all, the mere lyrics to his song indicate a welcoming invitation - "would you be mine?" - and an interest in the life and journey of you, the viewer.
Song lyrics become a platform for vocal pyrotechnics that demonstrate an intensity of expression that trumps mere words.
United fans are as prudent with their vocal favours as they are inventive with the lyrics; mere kids generally have to wait.
Or, to take a less generous view, Yankovic's use of "Fancy" might be mere opportunism — any lyrics would be worth listening to when introduced by those addictive, now famous synth notes.
He also refuses to see his poetry and lyrics as mere provocation.
His melodies are so rich and confident and his burnt-sugar voice so seductive that he seems to need to guard against mere beauty, puncturing the lyrics with bathetic shifts in register and brutally funny jokes that make you laugh out loud even as you wince at what they reveal.
This Thursday evening, a brand-new Broadway musical comedy called "The Producers" will open at the St. James Theater with the credit line I'd imagined a mere 66 years ago: "Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks".
One of the special's songs is a mere 15 seconds and its only lyrics are "Oh no, god no, my mother's friend has a son who just moved to Hollywood and she asked me to help him".
Failing that, an Internet search of quoted lyrics will have you, in mere seconds, faced with the tune in spades — live, acoustic, remixed by the artist, mashed up by fans, covered by random Kansans hoping for discovery.
There's more to a great lyric, or perhaps less, than mere truth.
