Lyrics to
Dead At Last

This version of Dead At Last was released by Reo Speedwagon in 1971.

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‘Cos I’ll start by working, while we’re calling a kind of dead
Torn by the curtains of our building shows no less…aaaahh!!!

Sunny (?) had a funny hair unto this lonely room so sad and ??
Violet eyes are staring, voices calling makes you free…aaaahh!!!

Freedom

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Reo Speedwagon has released many songs over the years besides Dead At Last. Reo Speedwagon released songs from 1971 to 2007 spanning across albums like REO Speedwagon, R.E.O / T.W.O., Ridin' The Storm Out, Lost In A Dream, This Time We Mean It, R.E.O., You Can Tune A Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish, Nine Lives, Hi Infidelity, Good Trouble, Wheels Are Turnin', Life As We Know It, The Earth, A Small Man, His Dog And A Chicken, Building The Bridge, and Find Your Own Way Home. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Reo Speedwagon.

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About Lyrics and Dead At Last by Reo Speedwagon

The lyrics for Dead At Last are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1971 song by Reo Speedwagon. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Dead At Last 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 Dead At Last - Reo Speedwagon 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 Dead At Last by Reo Speedwagon 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 Dead At Last" means the words set to the music of Dead At Last, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Reo Speedwagon. 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 Dead At Last and the lyrics to Dead At Last are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Reo Speedwagon who came here looking just for the lyrics to Dead At Last, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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