Lyrics to
A Simple Thing Like Cry

This version of A Simple Thing Like Cry was released by Diana Ross in 1971.

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If it didn’t hurt so bad
If it didn’t hurt so bad
Maybe I could cry

If I thought it was all a joke
And you were putting me on
If I could just make a wish
And this moment would be all gone
If I could see a trace of hope
Somewhere in your eyes
Maybe then I could do
A simple thing like cry

If it didn’t hurt so bad
If it didn’t hurt so bad
Maybe I could cry

Don’t you know I plan to spend
Every moment of my life with you
Now you’re trying to tell me
That my dreams just won’t come true
Thanks for giving me a million reasons why
But it hurts too bad to do
A simple thing like cry

If I thought it was all a joke
And you were putting me on
If I could just make a wish
And this moment would be all gone
If I could see a trace of hope
Somewhere in your eyes
Maybe then I could do
A simple thing like cry

If it didn’t hurt so bad
If it didn’t hurt me so bad
Maybe I could
If it didn’t hurt so bad
Maybe I could cry
I could cry, cry
If it didn’t hurt me
If I didn’t love you
Hurt me

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About Lyrics and A Simple Thing Like Cry by Diana Ross

When you decide to study the lyrics to A Simple Thing Like Cry, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Diana Ross. Some of the lyrics to A Simple Thing Like Cry have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Diana Ross and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to A Simple Thing Like Cry if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Simple Thing Like Cry" means the words set to the music of A Simple Thing Like Cry, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Diana Ross. 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 Simple Thing Like Cry and the lyrics to A Simple Thing Like Cry are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Diana Ross who came here looking just for the lyrics to A Simple Thing Like Cry, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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