Lyrics to
Blinded By The Light

This version of Blinded By The Light was released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1976.

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Madman drummer bummers
Indians in the summer
With a teenage diplomat
In the dumps with the mumps
As the adolescent pumps
His way into his hat
With a boulder on my shoulder
Feeling kinda older
I tripped a merry-go-round
With the very unpleasing
Sneezing and wheezing
The calliope crashed to the ground

Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a deuce
Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
She got down but she never got tight
She’s gonna make it through the night
Some silicone sister
With her manager mister
Told me I’ve got what it takes
She said, I’ll turn you on sonny to something strong
Play the song with the funky break
And go-kart Mozart
Was checking out the weather chart
To see if it was safe outside
And little Early Pearly
Came by in her curly-wurly
And asked me if I needed a ride

Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun
‘Cause mama, that’s where the fun is
Some brimstone baritone
Anticyclone rolling stone
Preacher from the east
Says dethrone the dictaphone
Hit it in the funnybone
That’s where they expect it least
And some new mown chaperone
Was standing in the corner
Watching the young girls dance
And some fresh-sown moonstone
Was playing with his frozen zone
Reminding him of romance
The calliope crashed to the ground

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About Lyrics and Blinded By The Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

The lyrics for Blinded By The Light are defined as the words making up the song released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1976. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Blinded By The Light have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 Blinded By The Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 Blinded By The Light" means the words set to the music of Blinded By The Light, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. 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 Blinded By The Light and the lyrics to Blinded By The Light are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Manfred Mann's Earth Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Blinded By The Light, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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