Lyrics to
Breaking Glass

This version of Breaking Glass was released by David Bowie in 1977.

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Baby, I’ve been
breaking glass
In your room again
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Don’t look at the carpet,
I drew something awful on it

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You’re such a wonderful person
But you got problems oh-oh-oh-oh
I’ll never touch you

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About Lyrics and Breaking Glass by David Bowie

When you decide to study the lyrics to Breaking Glass, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by David Bowie. Some of the lyrics to Breaking Glass have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only David Bowie and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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