Famed 1990s vocalist and songster Duncan Sheik is one of the few creative people who brought off to become productive not just in the mainstream music industry but also Broadway. With a pair off of Grammy and Tony Awards under his belt, Sheik can be studied as one of the few artists who hit important and cheesy succeeder in both Melodious subject areas. And as well it should-as a mainstream song author for favorite songs such as "Barely Breathing," his songs leap to life with moving lyric poems and challenging euphony; and as an artist engaged on the theatre, his lyrics and euphony are exhilarating and simply astonishing.

"Barely Breathing" is Sheik's first single, and the song that cleared him mainstream herald. This break hit was the Hot 100's fourth longest-running hit during that time-a rare feat for an artist like Sheik who isn't even an all-pop singer. The words of "Barely Breathing," however, has what no other pop song has during that time-a hook that's tough comfortable while sticking true to good opinion that doesn't reek of syrupy redolence which was common of words during that time. Find the lyrics of "Barely Breathing," and note how the raw persuasion is found to invalidate being too common: "'Cause I am barely breathing / And I can't find the air / Don't know who I'm kidding / Imagining you care / And I could stand here waiting / A fool for another day / I don't suppose it's worth the price, worth the price / The price that I would pay." Nor surprisingly, the authorship and construction of his older lyrics can still be detected in his later works, specially in his work in the dramatic art.

Another illustrious song with music and lyrics by Sheik is "Wishful Thinking," which was used in the 1998 movie Great Expectations. As with earlier single, 'Wishful Thinking" has the same subtle lyrics, lyric poems that do not holler or directly state its intentions and meaning. For a pop-rock creative person, Sheik's lyrics are full of surprising metaphors and turn of phrases, alluding to various standard mentions and symbolisation that add depth to his songs. Note this part of the lyrics of "Wishful Thinking," and find the entailing it attempts to connote: "Feel the blades of grass / How it brings you back / it will always be / Only as green as you can see."

But possibly the superlative of his originative career is his interest in the Braodway Melodious jump Awakening. Winning the Tony Award for Best Philharmonic during its first run, Sheik's pieces are artful and poetic, even if the topics and the theme of the play are provocative, to say the least. For instance, the lyrics of one of the Lyrical's showstoppers, "I Don't Do Sadness," shamelessly use tropical twists. Sample lyrics: "Awful sweet to be a little butterfly / Just wingin' over things And nothing deep inside. / Nothing goin', goin' wild in you, you know. / You're slowing by the riverside, / Or floatin' high and blue."