Lyrics to
Almost Medieval

This version of Almost Medieval was released by The Human League in 1979.

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There’s something in your soul that makes me feel so old
In fact I think I’ve died about six hundred times
There’s less of me now and more of me then
I’m moving back to the age of men

Jump off the tarmac there’s no stagecoach speed limit
Outside the office hangs the man on the gibbet
Soft lenses, grow to glasses
Small world, dimly seen through cataracts
Your program, newspaper
So they say
Rumour spread by word of mouth, jump onto the escalator
Press the button on the lift, raise the dust on old stair carpets
Endless treads like waves of regret
Now it seems I’m going madder
Falling off this rotting ladder

Soft lenses, grow to glasses
Small world, dimly seen through cataracts
Jump onto the escalator
Press the button on the lift
Raise the dust on old stair carpets
Endless treads like waves of regret
Now it seems I’m going madder
Falling off this rotting ladder

Your program, newspaper
So they say
Rumour spread by word of mouth
Jump onto the escalator
Press the button on the lift
Raise the dust on old stair carpets
Endless treads like waves of regret
Now it seems I’m going madder
Falling through this rotting ladder

There’s something in your soul that makes me feel so old
In fact I think I’ve died about six hundred times
There’s less of me now and more of me then
I’m moving back to the age of men

Jump off the tarmac there’s no stagecoach speed limit
Outside the office hangs the man on the gibbet
Jump off the tarmac there’s no stagecoach speed limit
Outside the office swings the man on the gibbet

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About Lyrics and Almost Medieval by The Human League

When you decide to study the lyrics to Almost Medieval, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by The Human League. Some of the lyrics to Almost Medieval have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Human League and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Almost Medieval 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 Almost Medieval" means the words set to the music of Almost Medieval, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Human League. 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 Almost Medieval and the lyrics to Almost Medieval are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Human League who came here looking just for the lyrics to Almost Medieval, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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