LYRIC

I. noun Date: 1581 a ~ composition, the words of a song, II. adjective Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French lyrique, from Latin ~us, from Greek lyrikos, from lyra Date: 1567 1. suitable for singing to the lyre or for being set to music and sung, of, relating to, or being drama set to music, 2. expressing direct usually intense personal emotion especially in a manner suggestive of song , exuberant , rhapsodic , having a light voice and a melodic style