Lyrics can be used in singular, but only in different meanings. The word also exists as an adjective. By the way, "news" is actually a singular word, if I remember correctly. ;)

On topic: Time really seems to be one of people's favourites. I love it too, myself.

Grantchester Meadows is amazing.

Lyrics can be singular if you're talking about the words to one song, or plural if you're talking about the words to many songs. For example, "The lyrics to Time are amazing, and one of Roger's best from the early 70s period", or "The lyrics to Animals are very strident and political, but the band carried them off well."

Now if you want to talk about just one line in a song, you'd say lyric.

Anyhow, that's how I was always taught to treat that word.

Cool! So "lyrics" isn't an uncountable word like news?

But yeah, Time is probably one of my favourites.

Rest in peace, play some great gigs in the sky

(02-08-2011 06:23 PM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  Lyrics can be singular if you're talking about the words to one song, or plural if you're talking about the words to many songs. For example, "The lyrics to Time are amazing, and one of Roger's best from the early 70s period", or "The lyrics to Animals are very strident and political, but the band carried them off well."

Now if you want to talk about just one line in a song, you'd say lyric.

Anyhow, that's how I was always taught to treat that word.

As far as I remember, a song's "lyrics" can't be split into "lyric"s. So I think you're wrong on that part.

"Lyric" is a word used to refer to lyric poetry. So, a lyric poem is often simply called a lyric. I think that that's pretty much the only way meaning for the word in singular.

Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar.
You're gonna go far, you're gonna fly high,
You're never gonna die, you're gonna make it if you try; they're gonna love you.
Well I've always had a deep respect, and I mean that most sincerely.
The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think.
Oh by the way, which one's Pink?
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy
we call it Riding the Gravy Train.
We're just knocked out.
We heard about the sell out.
You gotta get an album out,
You owe it to the people. We're so happy we can hardly count.
Everybody else is just green, have you seen the chart?
It's a helluva start, it could be made into a monster
if we all pull together as a team.
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy
we call it Riding the Gravy Trail.

Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar.
You're gonna go far, you're gonna fly high,
You're never gonna die, you're gonna make it if you try; they're gonna love you.
Well I've always had a deep respect, and I mean that most sincerely.
The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think.
Oh by the way, which one's Pink?
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy
we call it Riding the Gravy Train.
We're just knocked out.
We heard about the sell out.
You gotta get an album out,
You owe it to the people. We're so happy we can hardly count.
Everybody else is just green, have you seen the chart?
It's a helluva start, it could be made into a monster
if we all pull together as a team.
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy
we call it Riding the Gravy Trail.

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Don't ask me how I managed to post that twice.

In fact, I think I've hardly ever thought about his lyrics as one song being better than the other. His works are usually very well divided over the album, and they form one piece of art together. I think The Wall is his best work, but Brain Damage is a song I've always loved. Even if it had A New Machine's music, it'd still be one of my favourite songs.

Set The Controls For The Heart of The Sun is really really neat. It doesn't mean anything as far as I know, but it's visually interesting...I guess?

Burning Bridges for me...

Bridges burning gladly
Merging with the shadows,
Flickering between the lines.
Stolen moments floating softly on the air,
Borne on wings of fire and climbing higher.

Ancient bonds are breaking,
Moving on and changing sides.
Dreaming of a new day,
Cast aside the other way.
Magic visions stirring,
Kindled by and burning flames rise in her eyes.

The doorway stands ajar,
The walls that once were high.
Beyond the gilded cage,
Beyond the reach of ties.
The moment is at hand.
She breaks the golden band.

Absolutely beautiful and deeply poetic.