Lyrics to
Blackmail

This version of Blackmail was released by 10Cc in 1975.

Visit the 10Cc Lyrics profile at Decade Lyrics - it has the Blackmail lyrics as well as the rest of the songs by 10Cc.

Here's more interesting things in songs and lyrics tied to 10Cc or about the 1970s in general.

She doesn’t need money
She doesn’t need diamonds
She’s lookin’ for pretty things
She doesn’t want romance
She doesn’t need finance
She’s looking for rendezvous
But every time she’s going down
She never looks around
I’ll wait and watch her with my
lens until she brings the curtain down
‘There behind the keyhole’
with my fisheye
I’m back in the darkroom
I’m covered in fixer
I’m making a photograph
I’ll send her some postcards
In glorious colour
I’m keeping the negatives
I’ll form a letter from the news
With different type from different lines
I’ll tell the world about her
I’ll mail the People and the Times
‘Oo it’ll be so scandalous
For the both of them
But mainly her’
She showed them her husband
He ordered a dozen
He thought they were fabulous
The one with the —
The two of the —
And three of the —

He sold her to Hefner
Who put her in Playboy
He gave her a centre-fold
I made a real blunder
She made it in movies
I made her a superstar

---

Want more lyrics and songs by 10Cc?

10Cc has released many songs over the years besides Blackmail. 10Cc released songs from 1973 to 1995 spanning across albums like 10cc, Sheet Music, The Original Soundtrack, How Dare You!, Deceptive Bends, Bloody Tourists, Look Hear?, Ten Out Of 10, Windows In The Jungle, ...Meanwhile, and Mirror Mirror. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by 10Cc.

If you're a fan of the music of the 1970s looking for more songs from 1975 or the 1970s overall, you've come to the right place!

About Lyrics and Blackmail by 10Cc

The lyrics for Blackmail are defined as the words making up the song released by 10Cc in 1975. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Blackmail have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only 10Cc 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 Blackmail by 10Cc 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 Blackmail" means the words set to the music of Blackmail, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by 10Cc. 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 Blackmail and the lyrics to Blackmail are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of 10Cc who came here looking just for the lyrics to Blackmail, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

More Songs & Lyrics by 10Cc

Visit our 10Cc profile for more 10Cc songs, lyrics & info!

)