Lyric Interpreters Gifts

"Those are the lyrics? How embarrassing—I've been singing it wrong this whole time."

Emily Dickinson: Mime - "I think she's saying something about death."

'The next piece contains sex, violence, and Homeric epithets.'

Frederic Chopin

Revival Meeting - Simultaneous translation of all talking in tongues.

'I don't know much about history, don't know much biology ... but we'll be OK if there's a round on song lyrics.'

"Caricatures $20"

"This next song is just a song. Try not to read anything into it."

Harriet Walter

"Who is 'coming around the mountain,' John? Could it be your mother?"

"I'm stuck for the 'June-moon' rhyme in Serbo-Croatian."

Tragedy! When the feeling's gone and you can't go on.

'Cole Porter has the lyrics checked'

By the year 2500, 1 in 10 academics will devote their entire career to divining the meaning of the word 'sussudio'.

"I feel that what would really give your next album a major boost would be some kind of well-publicized personal problem."

"Great moments in songwriting" "What if she had a little lamb?" "Maybe it follows her to school?" "Wouldn't that make the children laugh?" "Exactly."

Vasiliy Lebedev-Kumach

"Well, we've for the melody down now, but I'm still not sure about the part where it goes, '...and they call the wind Dorcas Schnickelbaum.'"

'This one writes some fine lyrics, and the other one has composed some beautiful music, but they just done't seem to hit it off as collaborators.'

'Oh it's fantastic. It's my thirty fourth favourite sub-genre of progressive rock.'

George Gershwin, Psychiatrist

"Moon….June Croon….Loon… …Tycoon"

"I don't do spells. I'm a wizard at deciphering rap lyrics."

"Yeah, most people are surprised when they learn I'm actually a lyricist."

Onstage with the transgenic singers...

'Uh, Jake, I believe that should be 'and the skies are not cloudy all day,' not 'and we pour ourselves more Chardonnary.''

"Since when did my opinions become 'riffs'?"