Lyrics to
Chameleon

This version of Chameleon was released by Elton John in 1976.

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The last I heard of you
You were somewhere on a cruise in the Mediterranean
So imagine my surprise to see you very much alive
In the English rain again

And I can still recall wet afternoons
When we were small and simply childish
But you’ve created your own ghost
And the need you have is more than most to hide it

Oh, Chameleon, you’re stealing your way back into my eyes
Beyond a shadow of a doubt
You’re a devil, you’re a devil in disguise
Do you really change me, or am I going crazy
Chameleon, Chameleon, Chameleon, you’re free again my child

I remember still those lazy summer days
We’d kill out hunting danger
And we were alien to all outsiders
We had no desire to talk to strangers

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About Lyrics and Chameleon by Elton John

When you decide to study the lyrics to Chameleon, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Elton John. Some of the lyrics to Chameleon have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Elton John and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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