Lyrics to
Blackmail

This version of Blackmail was released by The Runaways in 1976.

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You didn’t care you went and broke my heart
I’ll get ya back you know it’s gonna start
You gave me pain thats whatcha done to me
When I get through you’ll be sorry you met me

You’ll wish you were never born
Blackmail, blackmail
I’ll make you pay
For the life that you tore
Blackmail
Black
Mail

You put it to me and now we’ll play my game
I’ll wrap you up and you’ll go insane
It took so long and I waited my turn
You pay your debt I’m gonna make you burn you know

You’ll wish you were never born
Blackmail, blackmail
I’ll make you pay
For the life that you tore
Blackmail
Black
Mail

I know about you and I’m gonna tell
The way I planned you’re gonna go through hell
Now you listen to what I’m about to say
Or you won’t live to see the light of day, you know

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About Lyrics and Blackmail by The Runaways

When you decide to study the lyrics to Blackmail, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by The Runaways. Some of the lyrics to Blackmail have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Runaways and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Blackmail 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 Blackmail" means the words set to the music of Blackmail, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Runaways. 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 The Runaways 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.

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