Lyrics to
Crowded Room

Released by Xtc in 1978
From the Album: Go 2 |

This version of Crowded Room was released by Xtc in 1978.

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Across a crowded room
I first set eyes on you
My vision was impaired
Obstructed out of view

By those – faces in a crowded room
them – bodies in a crowded room
their – breathing in a crowded room
and their – pushing me out
down the fire escape

In the crowded room I won’t touch too much
I felt the punch of a punch
The language was enough
To send me running


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Xtc has released many songs over the years besides Crowded Room. Xtc released songs from 1978 to 1992 spanning across albums like White Music, Go 2, Drums And Wires, Black Sea, Mummer, The Big Express, Skylarking, Chips From The Chocolate Fireball, and Nonsuch. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Xtc.

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About Lyrics and Crowded Room by Xtc

The lyrics to Crowded Room are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Xtc used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to Crowded Room have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Xtc and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Crowded Room by Xtc. 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 Crowded Room" means the words set to the music of Crowded Room, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Xtc. 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 Crowded Room and the lyrics to Crowded Room are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Xtc who came here looking just for the lyrics to Crowded Room, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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