Lyrics to
Brown Eyes

This version of Brown Eyes was released by Fleetwood Mac in 1979.

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You look at me with those brown eyes
What do you want to do?
Do you have to have me
The way that I want you, I want you?

When you look at me with those brown eyes
What do you want to say?
And are you just another liar?
Will you take me all the way, all the way?

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The lyrics for Brown Eyes are defined as the words making up the song released by Fleetwood Mac in 1979. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Brown Eyes have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Fleetwood Mac 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 Brown Eyes by Fleetwood Mac 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 Brown Eyes" means the words set to the music of Brown Eyes, 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 Brown Eyes and the lyrics to Brown Eyes 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 Brown Eyes, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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