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Ain’t Love A Bitch

This version of Ain’T Love A Bitch was released by Rod Stewart in 1978.

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Been in pain and I’ve been in shame
But ain’t love a bitch
I been in fights, locked away for nights
But ain’t love a bitch
I been tailed, impaled, strung up
and nailed and left without a stitch
I been scratched ‘n’ taxed ‘n’ finally axed
But ain’t love a bitch

Oh I didn’t understand till I was seventeen
She took me way upstairs and she wiped me clean
Oh I didn’t realize she made a first class fool out of me
Oh Maggie if you’re still out there the rest is history

You’re all alone in the freezing cold
by the underground
Your hands are numb and you’re feeling dumb
cos you been let down
You thought you were rough and kinda tough
and maybe out of reach
You’re acting chic, playing hide ‘n’ seek
But ain’t love a bitch

Oh I must state right here I been there before
My eyes were closed and so my friends
I still don’t know the score
Oh don’t underestimate the strength of it
It may be unwise to analyze even the cause of it

You’re driving home late one night and on the radio
Comes an old familiar song you used to know so well
(you know a lot about that)
Oh I can’t comprehend this thing called love
Maybe it’s a matter of fact I just can’t grow up
Deep down ain’t we all a little juvenile
All I really wanna know is there one sweet angel
that can make me smile

Ain’t love a bitch

Torrential rains, wars and hurricanes
I wouldn’t budge an inch
Your rent’s unpaid and your team lose again
But ain’t love a bitch
You can lose your job, your home and your health
But ain’t love a bitch
Take it or leave it some day you’ll feel it
‘cos love is the bitch

Ain’t love the bitch, ain’t love a bitch
Ain’t love a bitch, ain’t love a bitch
Ain’t love a bitch

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About Lyrics and Ain’T Love A Bitch by Rod Stewart

The lyrics for Ain’T Love A Bitch are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1978 song by Rod Stewart. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Ain’T Love A Bitch have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Ain’T Love A Bitch - Rod Stewart and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Ain’T Love A Bitch by Rod Stewart in multiple ways. 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 Ain’T Love A Bitch" means the words set to the music of Ain’T Love A Bitch, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Rod Stewart. 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 Ain’T Love A Bitch and the lyrics to Ain’T Love A Bitch are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Rod Stewart who came here looking just for the lyrics to Ain’T Love A Bitch, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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