The narrator laments the violence one second and plots a killing the next, and finally narrates his own death, by ambush, in a moving car.

Late in the book, the narrator laments: "I have so seldom seen the intelligent joyous.

Proust's narrator laments that such memories are inevitably partial, and do not bear the "essence" of the past.

The narrator then laments the passing of his mother, stating "I softly kissed that lady / And cried just like a baby."

The narrator laments upon adults' lack of creative understanding.

The story ends as a pair of planes fly overhead, and the narrator laments "I wish I could believe there are people in them".

The narrator laments Billy's "invisibility" as he produces good books that nobody reads: "How do you explain this to a man?

This is only enhanced by the ending, where the narrator laments that her beloved is "moving to Wales / to live in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch."

The song's female narrator laments on the modern generation, which is seen as selfish and caught up in mainly the technological world.

(lines 27-28) After describing the character of Matthew, the narrator laments: