Lyrics to
Bad Company

This version of Bad Company was released by Bad Company in 1974.

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Company, always on the run
Destiny is the rising sun
Oh, I was born 6-gun in my hand
Behind a gun I’ll make my final stand
That’s why they call me

Bad company
And I can’t deny
Bad company
Till the day I die
Oh, till the day I die
Till the day I die

Rebel souls, deserters we are called
Chose a gun and threw away the sun
Now these towns, they all know our name
6-gun sound is our claim to fame
I can hear them say

Bad company
And I won’t deny
Bad, bad company
Till the day I die, oo yeah
Till the day I die, oo

Hey
Bad company
And I can’t deny
Bad company
Till the day I die

And I say it’s
Bad company, oh yeah yeah
Bad company
Till the day I die, oh yeah

Tell me that you are not a thief
Oh but I am bad company
It’s the way I play dirty for dirty
Oh, somebody double-crossed me
Double-cross, double-cross

Yeah, we’re bad company

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Bad Company has released many songs over the years besides Bad Company. Bad Company released songs from 1974 to 1996 spanning across albums like Bad Company, Straight Shooter, Run With The Pack, Burnin' Sky, Desolation Angels, Rough Diamonds, Fame And Fortune, Dangerous Age, Holy Water, Here Comes Trouble, Company Of Strangers, and Stories Told & Untold. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Bad Company.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Bad Company, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Bad Company. Some of the lyrics to Bad Company have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Bad Company and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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