Lyrics to
Angry Blues

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I can’t help it if I don’t feel so good. I can’t help it if I don’t feel so good.
If I had my way, I’d be sitting on the top of the world. I can’t help it if I don’t feel so good.

When the anger comes in and there’s no place for a man to hide,
when the anger comes in and there’s no place for a man to hide,
would he do anything in the world to make him feel better inside?
When the anger comes in and there’s no place for a man to hide.

Gonna sit back here, and watch this cloud roll by.
Gonna sit back here, and watch this cloud roll by.
The next time that you see me I should be shining like the Fourth of July.
Gonna sit back here, gonna watch this cloud roll by.

I ain’t looking for details, won’t you just give me a clue? Oh, Lord, what am I gonna do?

I can’t help it if I don’t feel so good. I can’t help it if I don’t feel so good.
If I had my way, I’d be sitting on the top of the world. I can’t help it if I don’t feel so good.
Don’t feel so good, I can’t help it if I don’t feel so good.

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James Taylor has released many songs over the years besides Angry Blues. James Taylor released songs from 1968 to 2002 spanning across albums like James Taylor, Sweet Baby James, Mud Slide Slim And The Blue Horizon, One Man Dog, Walking Man, Gorilla, In The Pocket, JT, Flag, Dad Loves His Work, That's Why I'm Here, Never Die Young, New Moon Shine, Hourglass, and October Road. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by James Taylor.

About Lyrics and Angry Blues by James Taylor

The lyrics for Angry Blues are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1975 song by James Taylor. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Angry Blues 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 Angry Blues - James Taylor 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 Angry Blues by James Taylor 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 Angry Blues" means the words set to the music of Angry Blues, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by James Taylor. 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 Angry Blues and the lyrics to Angry Blues are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of James Taylor who came here looking just for the lyrics to Angry Blues, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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