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Best Of Both Worlds

This version of Best Of Both Worlds was released by Robert Palmer in 1978.

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We want the best of both worlds
We want it slow and hot
We like to taste revenge, yeah
But we can’t waste the shot

We want to see from both sides
We like it cool and fast
We want to get it over
We like to make it last

Keep it on
It’s getting closer
The best of both worlds
Double fun

We’ll make the most, girl
To get the best of both worlds
We must obey the law
What good’s a place to stand up
Without a place to fall?

Two and one
Fast and slow girl
The best of both worlds
Double fun
I’d like to now propose a toast
To the best of both worlds

I think about the war that is no fight at all
I think about the peace that is a fight for all
The best of both worlds
Keep it on
Fast and slow girl
The best of both worlds
Tight as a drum, loose as a gun holster
Yeah, it’s getting closer

Why do we waste our breath, child
On what we like the most
Seeing as we’ve wound up here
We ought to do them both

Back and forth
We get the most
Yeah, the best of both worlds
South and north
I’d like to now propose a toast
To the best of both worlds
Two and one
Fast and slow girl
The best of both worlds
Double fun
We’ll make the most girl to get the best of both worlds

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Best Of Both Worlds, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Robert Palmer. Some of the lyrics to Best Of Both Worlds have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Robert Palmer and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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