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Demon’s Eye

This version of Demon’S Eye was released by Deep Purple in 1971.

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I don’t mind just what you say.
I never heard you, baby, never heard you anyway.
I don’t care what you do
just so long as it ain’t me and you.
Sly, sly, sly like a demon’s eye.

Everything’s good, I said, everything’s fine.
You don’t know, don’t know it’s the end of your time.
How does it feel to be turned away?
I’ve known it, baby, almost every day.
Sly, sly, sly like a demon’s eye.

I don’t need you anymore,
I don’t want you, baby, hanging round my door.
You slip and slide round my brain.
You think you’re so clever, yeah, but you know you’re insane.
Sly, sly, sly like a demon’s eye.

I d-d-don’t mind just what you say.
I never heard you, baby, I never heard you anyway, no I didn’t.
Everything’s good, everything’s fine.
You don’t know it’s the end of your time.
Sly, sly, sly like the demon’s eye,
like the demon’s eye.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Demon’S Eye, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Deep Purple. Some of the lyrics to Demon’S Eye 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 Demon’S Eye 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 Demon’S Eye" means the words set to the music of Demon’S Eye, 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 Demon’S Eye and the lyrics to Demon’S Eye 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 Demon’S Eye, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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