Lyrics to
Bad Boy

This version of Bad Boy was released by Eric Clapton in 1970.

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I’m just a bad boy,
Long long ways from home.
I’m just a bad boy,
Long long ways from home.
But I ain’t got nobody
To bury me when I’m dead and gone.

Well I’m the cat that scratches
And I’m like a dog that bites.
I’ll be your box of matches, baby,
When you need a light.

I used to have a little girl,
Only 16 years old,
But her mom and dad put me way out,
Way out in the cold.

I can’t stay here no longer,
My luck is running slow.
Gotta keep on moving
But I ain’t got no place to go.

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About Lyrics and Bad Boy by Eric Clapton

The lyrics for Bad Boy are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1970 song by Eric Clapton. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Bad Boy 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 Bad Boy - Eric Clapton 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 Bad Boy by Eric Clapton 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 Bad Boy" means the words set to the music of Bad Boy, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Eric Clapton. 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 Bad Boy and the lyrics to Bad Boy are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Eric Clapton who came here looking just for the lyrics to Bad Boy, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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