Possible Clues:

• Car Lily damaged -- wax it, perhaps, if feeling enthusiastic?
• I cry, all stirred up and emotional
• Imaginative famous songwriter almost restricted by unreliable ally
• Like bel canto singing
• All I cry about? Topless dads completing dance work
• Year One, being involved in Latin: state 'poetic'
• Like an ode
• Enthusiastic players regularly dropped, one briefly impassive
• Songful
• Air may be all icy — river is flowing