Lyrics to
Back Door Love Affair

This version of Back Door Love Affair was released by Zz Top in 1971.

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Got to have you baby,
don’t you say that you don’t care.*
Got to have you baby,
don’t you say that you don’t care.

Any way you want it baby,
I’ll settle for a back door love affair.

I call you on the telephone,
the party says that you ain’t there.
I call you on the telephone,
the party says that you ain’t there.

When a man asked who’s callin’,
I said, just tell ’em it’s a back door love affair.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Back Door Love Affair, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Zz Top. Some of the lyrics to Back Door Love Affair have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Zz Top and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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