Poetic allusions makes for the best song lyrics, and these three songs manage to say "I love you" without using the phrase at ...

Behind beautiful melodies and iconic choruses are stories of grief, addiction, death, regret, and loss that often go ...

Which song lyrics from 2025 most moved our NPR Music critics?

From tear-jerkers to mic-drops, NPR's music critics share the 2025 lyrics that made them laugh, cry and hit replay.

These three songs boast some of the greatest country music lyrics ever written, according to more than a few famous songwriters.

Lyrics of successful songs in the United States have become simpler and more negative over recent decades, according to a ...

Examining a song’s lyrics shorn of the music can highlight the themes that a songwriter returns to over time.

Megadeth are now three songs deep into their self-titled final album and we’ve got the new song and lyrics for “Let There Be ...

Songs have gotten more repetitive and angrier since the 1980s, according to a new study, furthering research that suggested songs have gotten shorter, simpler and more negative over the years due to ...

A new comprehensive analysis suggests that the words embedded in songs do far more than simply provide a narrative for a ...

Researchers found that lyrics in each of five popular music genres were becoming more repetitive and charged with negative emotions. Desi Mendoza via Wikimedia Commons In recent years, the growing ...