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A Fool For Your Stockings

Released by Zz Top in 1979
From the Album: Deguello |

This version of A Fool For Your Stockings was released by Zz Top in 1979.

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Is it you again outside,
Just banging on the front door?
You say you had enough,
Now you’re coming’ back for more,
But that’s alright.
I said that that’s alright.
I may not want to admit it,
I’m just a fool for your stockings I believe.

Now I don’t mind when you send money
and bring your girlfriends with you,
But how could one be so thoughtless to try
and handle less than two?
But that’s alright.
I said that that’s alright, baby.
I may not want to admit it,
I’m just a fool for your stockings I believe.

Now I’m tellin’ everybody
It seems too good to be true:
Sweet things can always get sweeter.
I know mine did, how about you?
Yes, it’s alright.
I said, yes it is, that’s alright.
I may not want to admit it,
I’m just a fool for your stockings I believe.


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Zz Top has released many songs over the years besides A Fool For Your Stockings. Zz Top released songs from 1971 to 2003 spanning across albums like ZZ Top's First Album, Rio Grande Mud, Tres Hombres, Fandango!, Tejas, Deguello, El Loco, Eliminator, Afterburner, Recycler, Antenna, Rhythmeen, XXX, and Mescalero. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Zz Top.

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The lyrics to A Fool For Your Stockings are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Zz Top used when the song was created in 1979. The lyrics to A Fool For Your Stockings have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Zz Top and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to A Fool For Your Stockings by Zz Top. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to A Fool For Your Stockings" means the words set to the music of A Fool For Your Stockings, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Zz Top. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to A Fool For Your Stockings and the lyrics to A Fool For Your Stockings are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Zz Top who came here looking just for the lyrics to A Fool For Your Stockings, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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