Lyrics to Balinese - Decade Lyrics

This version of Balinese was released by Zz Top in 1975.

Our Zz Top Songs profile has Balinese lyrics from 1975 and most if not all of the lyrics by Zz Top that we have here at Decade Lyrics.

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Deep in the South of Texas
not so long ago,
there on a crowded island
in the Gulf of Mexico

it didn’t take too much money,
man, but it sure was nice.
You could dance all night if you felt all right,
drinking whiskey and throwing dice.

And everybody knows
it was hard to leave.
And everybody knows
it was down at the Balinese.

Yeah, I remember Ruby,
she always dressed in red
wearing skintight pants, Lord, and how she could dance
with a rag wrapped around her head.

And everybody knows
it was hard to leave.
And everybody knows
it was down at the Balinese.

And everybody knows
it was hard to leave.
And everybody knows
it was down at the Balinese,
it was down at the Balinese,
it was down at the Balinese.

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About Lyrics and Balinese by Zz Top

When you decide to study the lyrics to Balinese, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Zz Top. Some of the lyrics to Balinese 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 Balinese 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 Balinese" means the words set to the music of Balinese, 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 Balinese and the lyrics to Balinese 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 Balinese, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.