Lyrics to
Beautiful Thing

This version of Beautiful Thing was released by Eric Clapton in 1976.

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I’ve told you once, now you should know
The reason that I’m coming down.
There ain’t no time to repeat again;
Just need to bring it around.

We had a beautiful thing going,
You couldn’t see things my way.
We had a beautiful thing going,
Something just got in our way.

And I told you once that it was rough.
I looked on you as my friend,
Because that did not seem to be good enough,
And now it’s time to begin.

We’ve got a beautiful thing going,
I hope that’s the way it will stay.
We’ve got a beautiful thing going,
Nothing can stand in our way.

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About Lyrics and Beautiful Thing by Eric Clapton

The lyrics for Beautiful Thing are defined as the words making up the song released by Eric Clapton in 1976. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Beautiful Thing have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Eric Clapton and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Beautiful Thing by Eric Clapton if you think through it. 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 Beautiful Thing" means the words set to the music of Beautiful Thing, 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 Beautiful Thing and the lyrics to Beautiful Thing 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 Beautiful Thing, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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