Lyric (original) (raw)

From the Greek, a song sung with a lyre. Now, commonly used to mean a song of no defined length or structure. Also, a lyric poem is one that expresses a subjective, personal point of view.

I would be the Lyric Ever on the lip, Rather than the Epic Memory lets slip. —Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The term is also commonly used to mean the words of a song.