Lyrics to
Clown Service

This version of Clown Service was released by The Hollies in 1978.

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Is that the clown service I’m callin’
I’ve made a fool of myself again
There’s a hole in my pocket
A patch on my pants
My shoes let in water
I’m feeling you’re here

Look up the smile service operator
I’ve got some frown lines that need to be read
I look in the mirror
I sigh all the time
The face that I see
I know it ain’t mine

Ooh we lady
If I had my baby
I wouldn’t be wastin’ your time
Ooh we lady,
If I had my baby
I wouldn’t be blockin’, blockin’ your line

Is that the love service
I’m callin’ come on over mend my broken heart
Was it so silly, was Cupid so stupid
Or maybe it wasn’t to be that way at all

I look in the mirror
I sigh all the time
The face that I see I know it ain’t mine
Was it so silly, was Cupid so stupid
Or maybe it wasn’t to be that way at all

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The Hollies has released many songs over the years besides Clown Service. The Hollies released songs from 1964 to 1998 spanning across albums like Stay With The Hollies, In The Hollies Style, Hollies, For Certain Because, Would You Believe?, Butterfly, Evolution, Hollies Sing Dylan, Hollies Sing Hollies, Confessions Of The Mind, Distant Light, Romany, Another Night, Russian Roulette, Write On, A Crazy Steal, 5317704, Buddy Holly, What Goes Around, The Hollies At Abbey Road 1963-1966, and The Hollies At Abbey Road 1966-1970. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Hollies.

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About Lyrics and Clown Service by The Hollies

The lyrics for Clown Service are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1978 song by The Hollies. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Clown Service have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Clown Service - The Hollies and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Clown Service by The Hollies in multiple ways. 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 Clown Service" means the words set to the music of Clown Service, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Hollies. 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 Clown Service and the lyrics to Clown Service are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Hollies who came here looking just for the lyrics to Clown Service, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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