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The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

Tate McRae opens up about her lyrics: "I think I was more in a space of feeling like I was everywhere and nowhere at the same ...

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

Glass Onion by The Beatles subtly hinted at the band’s breakup, making it one of their most intriguing and prophetic songs.

The beautiful thing about music is that there's a song for every single mood out there, including every kind of sadness.

These are three of the saddest country songs ever written, which all came out in 1991, and remain classic tear-jerkers today.

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