1.   By Wednesday, lyric writing was in full swing.

2.   He was quick at that and I was quick at lyric writing.

3.   Sadly, an institution that has for three decades championed the art of classic lyric writing today all but ignores it as a living tradition.

4.   Stapp, who sings in a low, raspy voice, figures the years spent studying the Bible helped his lyric writing.

5.   Still, her lyric writing is a powerful mix of the inspirational and the dispiriting.

6.   The intricacies of lyric writing have thus been reduced to brute effusion.

7.   And lyric writing is a rest from both of them.

8.   The experience taught Costello a new economy in lyric writing.