Breaking free of the hoonish rhythm, we sense that two layers of bitter song remain.

The opening track on the album is "Kill Bill", a bitter song about Walsh; which was written by Knight.

Thou, and not I, didst make song against them more bitter even than our song against Red Dog.

She stopped, sighed, and then: "The girls of our village sing a song, a very bitter song.

Audience members had to figure out how to reconcile the elegant, sometimes bitter songs with the beaming hip-wiggler singing them.

She turned to walk into the house while the wind reared up to slap the air and send her chimes into a wild and bitter song.

"It's hard to come out and do our bitter songs," apologized Damon Krukowski, "after seeing Tom and feeling so good."

The show soars only in the sweetly bitter songs performed by Victoria Clark, as an American abroad (2:15).

At Irving Plaza, he opened with "Love and Happiness," a bitter 1991 song about declining American expectations.

Nine-Inch Nails offers bitter songs of lost innocence with a relentless industrial beat.