Lyrics to
Deny

This version of Deny was released by The Clash in 1977.

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deny
you’re such a liar
you won’t know the truth if it hits you in the eye
deny
you’re such a liar
you’re selling your no-no all the time

an’ you said we were going out
to the 100 club
then you said it ain’t my scene
but then you turned up alone
then you turned up alone

then you said you’d given it up
gone an’ kicked it in the head
you said you ain’t had none for weeks
but baby i seen your arms
baby i seen your arms

do you think i’m a raving idiot?
just got off the boat
step in line, sign this form – you ain’t got a hope
baby ain’t got a hope – you ain’t got a hope

what a liar – deny
what a liar

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About Lyrics and Deny by The Clash

When you decide to study the lyrics to Deny, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by The Clash. Some of the lyrics to Deny have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Clash and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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