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Dead Men Tell No Tales

This version of Dead Men Tell No Tales was released by Motorhead in 1979.

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Breaking up or breaking through,
Breaking something’s all we ever do,
Shoot straight, travel far,
Stone crazy’s all we ever are,
But I don’t care for lies,
And I won’t tell you twice,
Because when all else fails,
Dead Men Tell No Tales

Shooting up away and back,
A bit of guts is all that you lack,
Far behind the stable door,
I know you’ve met that horse before,
But I don’t care for skag,
And this sure ain’t no blag,
At the end of all the tracks and trails,
Dead Men Tell No Tales

You used to be my friend,
But that friendship’s coming to an end,
My meaning must be clear,
You know pity is all that you hear,
But if you’re doing smack,
You won’t be coming back,
I ain’t the one to make your bail,
Dead Men Tell No Tales

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Dead Men Tell No Tales, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Motorhead. Some of the lyrics to Dead Men Tell No Tales have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Motorhead and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Dead Men Tell No Tales 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 Dead Men Tell No Tales" means the words set to the music of Dead Men Tell No Tales, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Motorhead. 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 Men Tell No Tales and the lyrics to Dead Men Tell No Tales are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Motorhead who came here looking just for the lyrics to Dead Men Tell No Tales, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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