Lyrics to
Beauty And The Beast

This version of Beauty And The Beast was released by David Bowie in 1977.

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Weaving down a byroad,
singing the song
That’s my kind of highroad,
gone wrong
My-my
Smile at least
You can’t say no
to the Beauty and the Beast

Something in the night
Something in the day
Nothing is wrong but darling
Something’s in the way
There’s slaughter in the air
Protest on the wind
Someone else inside me
Someone could get skinned, how?
My-my
Someone fetch a priest
You can’t say no
to the Beauty and the Beast
Darling

My-my
You can’t say no
to the Beauty and the Beast
(Weakling)
My-my
You can’t say no
to the Beauty and the Beast

I wanted to believe me
I wanted to be good
I wanted no distractions
Like every good boy should

My-my

Nothing will corrupt us
Nothing will compete
Thank god heaven left us
Standing on our feet
My-my
Beauty and the Beast

My-my
Just Beauty and the Beast
You can’t say no
to the Beauty and the Beast
Darling

My-my
My
My-my
My

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About Lyrics and Beauty And The Beast by David Bowie

The lyrics to Beauty And The Beast are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that David Bowie used when the song was created in 1977. The lyrics to Beauty And The Beast have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only David Bowie and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Beauty And The Beast by David Bowie. 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 Beauty And The Beast" means the words set to the music of Beauty And The Beast, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by David Bowie. 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 Beauty And The Beast and the lyrics to Beauty And The Beast are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of David Bowie who came here looking just for the lyrics to Beauty And The Beast, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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