Lyrics to
Blood On The Floor

This version of Blood On The Floor was released by Fleetwood Mac in 1970.

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Well goodbye world
It’s sad but true
Got a date with the hangman
I have to leave you
I shot my darlin’
Three times of more
The reason I’m goin’
Is blood on the floor

The nights are so lonely
The days are so long
I’m in the jailhouse
Cause they say I’ve done wrong
I don’t say I’m sorry
I just say I’m sore
The reason I’m goin’
Is blood on the floor (blood on the floor)

Well I came home one night
She were lyin’,
With her legs around
Another mans bod
She saw me, stared laughin’
But she cried, when she saw my gun

Goodbye world
I guess we must part
They’re taking my life
Cause I shot my sweetheart
I don’t say I’m sorry
I just say I’m sore
The reason I’m goin’
Is blood on the floor
Oh the reason I’m goin’
Is blood on the floor
Oh the reason I’m goin’
Is the blood on the floor

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

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

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