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Baby, What A Big Surprise

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Right before my very eyes
I thought that you were only fakin’ it
And like before my heart was takin’ it.
Baby what a big surprise
Right before my very eyes.
Yesterday it seemed to me
My life was nothing more than wasted time
But here today you’ve softly changed my mind.
Baby what a big surprise
Right before my very eyes.
Just to be alone
Was a little more than I could take
Then you came to stay
Hold me in the morning
Love me in the afternoon
Help me find my way.
Now and then just like before
I think about the love I’ve thrown away
But now it doesn’t matter anyway.
Baby, what a big surprise.

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The lyrics to Baby, What A Big Surprise are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Chicago used when the song was created in 1977. The lyrics to Baby, What A Big Surprise have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Chicago and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Baby, What A Big Surprise by Chicago. 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 Baby, What A Big Surprise" means the words set to the music of Baby, What A Big Surprise, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Chicago. 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 Baby, What A Big Surprise and the lyrics to Baby, What A Big Surprise are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Chicago who came here looking just for the lyrics to Baby, What A Big Surprise, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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