The text of a popular song or musical-comedy number:
— His compositions always started with the lyrics.

synonyms: language, words.

Roget 597: poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon^†, Pierides, Pierian spring.    versification, rhyming, making verses; prosody, orthometry^†.    poem; epic, epic poem; epopee^†, epopoea, ode, epode^†, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic^†, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau [Fr.], rondo, madrigal, canzonet^†, cento^†, monody [Slang], elegy; amoebaeum, ghazal^†, palinode.    dramatic poetry, lyric poetry; opera; posy, anthology; disjecta membra poetae song [Lat.], ballad, lay; love song, drinking song, war song, sea song; lullaby; music etc. 415; nursery rhymes.    [Bad poetry] doggerel, Hudibrastic verse^†, prose run mad; macaronics^†; macaronic verse^†, leonine verse; runes.    canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain; strophe, antistrophe^†.    verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo^†, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm; accentuation etc. (voice) 580; dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest &c.; hexameter, pentameter; Alexandrine; anacrusis^†, antispast^†, blank verse, ictus.    elegiacs etc. adj.; elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry.    poet, poet laureate; laureate; bard, lyrist^†, scald, skald^†, troubadour, trouvere [Fr.]; minstrel; minnesinger, meistersinger [G.]; improvisatore^†; versifier, sonneteer; rhymer, rhymist^†, rhymester; ballad monger, runer^†; poetaster; genus irritabile vatum [Lat.].    ... show more

Dutch: songtekst, tekst

A short poem of songlike quality.

synonym: lyric poem.

Dutch: lyriek
Polish: liryk

Write lyrics for (a song).

Expressing deep emotion:
— The dancer's lyrical performance.

synonym: lyrical.

Roget 597: poetic, poetical; lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic etc. n.; metrical; a catalectin^†; elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic^†; amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic^†; Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic^†, Pindaric.    ... show more

Roget 415: musical; instrumental, vocal, choral, lyric, operatic; harmonious etc. 413; Wagnerian.   

Polish: liryczny

Used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range.

Relating to or being musical drama.

Of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way).