Lyrics to
Big River

This version of Big River was released by Bob Seger in 1970.

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Life is like a big river
sinkin’ or swim, depends on you
you can take or you can be a giver
if you got love
you’re gonna get through
once, a good woman loved me
kinda cruel, and she left me one day
now I’m cyin’, she loves another
gotta go alone
the rest of the way
take, the advice of a loser
who’s been livin’ too long alone
follow your heart
follow your rainbow
and one day you’ll find
you are not alone

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About Lyrics and Big River by Bob Seger

When you decide to study the lyrics to Big River, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by Bob Seger. Some of the lyrics to Big River have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Bob Seger and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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