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

Organizers of world tennis's biggest annual team event faced a Balkan backlash after all-time great Novak Djokovic and his Serbian teammates were introduced and feted at last weekend's Davis Cup ...

Music just has a way of moving people. Whether to motivate, console or inspire, there is something about song lyrics that really makes a person think differently. And when it comes to the best song ...

Julie Byrne has shared another new song from The Greater Wings, her first new album in six years. Listen to the title track, the album’s opening song, below. Byrne has also announced additional tour ...

“Tomorrow Never Knows” was one of The Beatles’ first psychedelic tunes, and had pretty far-out lyrics too. There are backward loops and strange lyrics, including, “Turn off your mind/ Relax and float ...

It's totally normal to need a good cry sometimes, and there's nothing that does the trick quite like the best sad songs can. Hearing your favorite artists of all time singing the saddest lyrics and ...

The word mondegreen is defined as a misheard word or phrase that makes sense in your head, but is, in fact, incorrect. The term was coined in a November 1954 Harper's Bazaar piece, where the author, ...