{
  "id": "lyrics.musical",
  "term": "lyrics",
  "sense": "musical",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "everyday",
  "domain": "language",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the text with music",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "text.written",
      "music.auditory"
    ],
    "interaction": "the text and music together make a pattern",
    "novel_properties": [
      "rhythmic arrangement",
      "semantic meaning",
      "sung phrasing"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Bob Dylan's 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' was recorded with musical accompaniment in 1963.",
      "domain": "music"
    },
    {
      "text": "The libretto of Mozart's opera *The Magic Flute* was sung to composed melodies in 1791.",
      "domain": "theater"
    },
    {
      "text": "Rapper Kendrick Lamar performed the lyrics of 'Alright' over beats at the 2015 BET Awards.",
      "domain": "performance"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "song.musical"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "lyric",
    "lyrics"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-lyrics.musical"
}