Distils and expands their strengths, from elegant tunes to resolutely bittersweet lyrics.

His best-known work, the Magnetic Fields' "69 Love Songs," is a sprawling, three-CD survey of pop music, full of bittersweet lyrics.

But the bittersweet lyrics could just as easily have been aimed at a record-label executive: "If you want me, you better speak up, I won't wait/ So you'd better move fast."

On the 6 features several other ballads including "Too Late" and "Could This Be Love" which is "flamenco-flavored" and contains bittersweet lyrics.

Her quiet, piercing rendition of "Send In the Clowns" makes Stephen Sondheim's bittersweet lyrics new again.

The bittersweet lyrics from Creed were a key factor in creating memorable music.

Fresh-faced and striking, with a sideways wedge haircut, she looks like England's answer to Janelle Monáe, but her bittersweet lyrics suggest a sadness lurks beneath her cheerful exterior.

The track's bittersweet lyrics are written from the point of view of a man looking back with regret upon a missed chance.

Universal Music said "Missing You" is "bittersweet lyrics are an ode to a lost love, sung over some synth riffs."