Word: lyrical
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...some of his new album in the real Almeria Club, a bar in Troy, Ala., where his old man is said to have once performed, and one of his songs, If the Good Lord's Willin' (and the Creeks Don't Rise), is adapted from his dad's old lyric sheets. The way Hank Jr. tries to generate excitement is also foursquare--he relies more on blazing guitar riffs than ingenious melodies. There's more bombast on 30 sec. of Almeria Club's final track, America Will Survive, than on the whole of his son's Lovesick, Broke and Driftin...
...Sample lyric: “No matter who you are or what you feel is true/Truth of the matter is we all got work to do/If it distresses you it oughta hurt me too/Don’t let it bring you down/Just elevate your view.” (“Elevate Your View?...
...Lyric Stage Company of Boston...
...everyone is able to distill the positive message. Last March Charles Andrew Williams, 15, walked into his Santee, Calif., high school and killed two fellow students. That morning he wrote out the lyrics from Linkin Park's song In the End--"I tried so hard and got so far/ but in the end, it doesn't even matter"--pinned the note to the speakers in his room and signed it to explain his feelings of despair to his father. None of the group members like talking about Santee, in part because, really, what can they say other than that...
Segal specialized in Greek tragedy, especially the plays of Sophocles, but he also studied the mythological works of Ovid, the epics of Virgil and Greek lyric and pastoral poetry. He maintained interests in both Greek and Latin texts and kept up active scholarship in both fields...