Lyrics to
Cold On The Shoulder

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All you need is time
All you need is time, time, time to make me bend
Give it a try, don’t be rude
Put it to the test and I’ll give it right back to you

It’s cold on the shoulder
And you know that we get a little older every day

Kick it around, take it to town
Try to defy what you feel inside
You better be strong
Your love belongs to us

It’s cold on the shoulder
And you know that we get a little older every day

All I need is trust
All I need is trust, trust, trust to make it show
I don’t want to know everything you done
If you get a tip then tell it to the eskimos

It’s cold on the shoulder
And you know that we get a little older every day
It’s cold on the shoulder
And you know that we get a little older every day

All we need is faith
All we need is faith, faith, faith to make it nice
Kick it around, don’t be rude
If you’re gonna make a mistake don’t you make it twice

It’s cold on the shoulder
And you know that we get a little older every day
It’s cold on the shoulder
And you know that we get a little older every day
It’s cold on the shoulder
And you know that we get a little older every day
It’s cold on the shoulder
And you know that we get a little older every day

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Gordon Lightfoot has released many songs over the years besides Cold On The Shoulder. Gordon Lightfoot released songs from 1966 to 2004 spanning across albums like Lightfoot!, The Way I Feel, Back Here On Earth, Did She Mention My Name, Sunday Concert, Sit Down Young Stranger / If You Could Read My Mind, Summer Side Of Life, Don Quixote, Old Dan's Records, Sundown, Cold On The Shoulder, Summertime Dream, Endless Wire, Dream Street Rose, Shadows, Salute, East Of Midnight, Waiting For You, A Painter Passing Through, and Harmony. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Gordon Lightfoot.

About Lyrics and Cold On The Shoulder by Gordon Lightfoot

When you decide to study the lyrics to Cold On The Shoulder, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Gordon Lightfoot. Some of the lyrics to Cold On The Shoulder have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Gordon Lightfoot and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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