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Being Kind (Can Hurt Someone Sometimes)

This version of Being Kind (Can Hurt Someone Sometimes) was released by Reo Speedwagon in 1972.

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Please don’t worry now about the mornin’
When it’s time we’ll sip our wine and sleep
Woah, but I’ve been known
To love more than one person
Woah, and I’ve been shown
That bein’ kind can hurt someone sometimes
Listen to my words now look no further
What you’ve seen is what I mean no more
Woah, but I’ve been known
To love more than one person
Woah, and I’ve been shown
That bein’ kind can hurt someone sometimes

Don’t dream of answers cause you know I’ve none to give
They burn like cancers they just won’t let you live

I’ve been known
To love more than one person
And I’ve been shown
That bein’ kind can hurt someone sometimes

Don’t dream of answers cause you know I’ve none to give
We move like dancers steppin on each other to live
And pouncin hard
Like animals in the yard
And there’s no healin, lookin, feelin
There’s no denyin that bein kind can hurt
Someone sometimes
Oh, there’s no denyin, woah Lord there’s no denyin
That bein’ kind can hurt someone sometimes

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The lyrics to Being Kind (Can Hurt Someone Sometimes) are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Reo Speedwagon used when the song was created in 1972. The lyrics to Being Kind (Can Hurt Someone Sometimes) have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Reo Speedwagon 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 Being Kind (Can Hurt Someone Sometimes) by Reo Speedwagon. 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 Being Kind (Can Hurt Someone Sometimes)" means the words set to the music of Being Kind (Can Hurt Someone Sometimes), or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Reo Speedwagon. 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 Being Kind (Can Hurt Someone Sometimes) and the lyrics to Being Kind (Can Hurt Someone Sometimes) are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Reo Speedwagon who came here looking just for the lyrics to Being Kind (Can Hurt Someone Sometimes), but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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