Lyrics to
Ain’t No Crime

This version of Ain’T No Crime was released by Billy Joel in 1973.

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You got to open your eyes in the morning
Nine o’clock comin’ with out any warnin’
And you gotta get ready to go
You say you went out late last evenin’
Did a lot of drinkin’
Come home stinkin’
And you went and fell asleep on the floor
And then your lady comes and finds you asleepin’
Starts in to weepin’ ’bout the hours you been keepin’
And you better get your ass out the door

Ain’t no crime
Say ev’rybody gets that way some time
Ain’t no crime
You know it’s good to get it on to get a load off your mind
Oh no, it ain’t no crime. Oh.

You got to open your eyes in the morning
Nine o’clock comin’ with out any warnin’
And you gotta get ready to go
Well now you tell me you love somebody
And you’ll love ’em forever
You may love ’em forever
But you won’t like ’em all of the time
Well now you tell me you need somebody for the rest of your life
You might have somebody
But you won’t want ’em ev’ryday

Ain’t no crime
Say ev’rybody gets that way some time
Ain’t no crime
Well it’s just human nature
Happens all the time
Oh no, it ain’t no crime. Oh

And just as surely as the wind keeps blowin’
The grass keeps growin’
You gotta keep goin’
And the Lord have mercy on your soul
La, la la la.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Ain’T No Crime, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Billy Joel. Some of the lyrics to Ain’T No Crime have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Billy Joel and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Ain’T No Crime 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 Ain’T No Crime" means the words set to the music of Ain’T No Crime, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Billy Joel. 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 No Crime and the lyrics to Ain’T No Crime are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Billy Joel who came here looking just for the lyrics to Ain’T No Crime, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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