Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK black) to chat up, to sweet-talk.

1997		‘Q’ Deadmeat 41: Ah didn’t ave to lyrics.
2001		Tony Hendriks ‘Mr. Bombastic’ Jam. Paleface 🌐 Attempt to employ a man in Jamaica to blow up a plane and you’d have to check on him by the hour. Follow him to the airport, you’d find him lyricsing a girl and when he sees you coming he’d cut his eye at you.