Sentence examples for over the lyrics from inspiring English sources

As the troupe's frolicking mix of vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley takes over, the lyrics, dredged in immorality, become the center of attention.

You might still puzzle over the lyrics, no matter how many times you've sung it, and you might not know that the man responsible for the song as we know it is Robert Burns, the Scottish poet who was born on this day in 1759.

After finishing each stanza, he handed over the lyrics to his classically trained brother, John Rosamond Johnson, who put the words to music, according to an account from James Weldon Johnson, recalled in the book "Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora" by Shana L. Redmond.

He sits cross-legged on the bed, hunched over the lyrics, when he hears a knock on the door.

And somewhere in a bedroom near you, there will be an adolescent poring over the lyrics of The Streets, Pete Doherty or the Arctic Monkeys.

All three recipients got down to work, poring over the lyrics, "trying to understand what the artist was conveying," Ms. St.Arnauld said.

And use this rule for the lyrics: The more over-the-top the lyrics are, the less seriously you should take them.

Though the words sound like "a milli, a milli" repeated over and over, the sampled lyric may originally have been "a biddley-biddley," a common opening gambit for MCs in Jamaican dancehall during the seventies and eighties.

In a statement to police, Samantha said that, once the song was over, Lars continued to sing the lyrics "over and over" and that she asked him to stop "25 times".

At the studio I'm reading over the lyric and I'm saying, Rape?

"Mary looks over the music, and I look over the lyric presentation," Alice, wearing black-rimmed eyeglasses and a dark suit, said the other day during an intermission at one of the show's previews.