Lyrics to
Busted

This version of Busted was released by Nazareth in 1977.

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My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes
And I’m busted
Cotton is down to a quarter a pound
But I’m busted
I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won’t lay
A big stack of bills that gets bigger each day
The county’s gonna haul my belongings away
‘Cause I’m busted.

I went to my brother to ask for a loan
‘Cause I was busted
I hate to beg like a dog without his bone
But I’m busted
My brother said there ain’t a thing I can do
My wife and my kids are all down with the flu
And I was just thinking about callin’ on you
And I’m busted.

Well I am no thief but a man can go wrong
When he’s busted
The food that we packed that last summer is gone
And I’m busted
The fields are all bare and the cotton won’t grow
Me and my fam’ly got to pack up and go
But I’ll make a living just where I don’t know
‘Cause I’m busted.

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

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

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