Lyrics to
Dealer

This version of Dealer was released by Deep Purple in 1975.

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If you fool around
With the dealer
Remember soon
You’ll have to pay
He’ll creep behind you
Like a hunter
Just to steal your soul away
I don’t want no one
Messing with my woman
But just the same
I don’t see nobody
Fooling with you
If you’re snowblind
Madonna can hold you
But if you don’t understand
There is nothing she can do for you

Running from the dealer
Trying to save your soul

I can feel the fire
Coming from inside you
I know what it’s like
Cos I’ve been burned before
Ain’t no mercy
In the hunger but
You’re a fool to yourself
Cos your dealer keeps you begging for more

Running from the dealer
Trying to save your soul

In the beginning all you wanted
Was the calm before the storm
If the bluebird plays the eagle
He finds his song will turn to stone
Dealer

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

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

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