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Die Young Stay Pretty

Released by Blondie in 1979
From the Album: Eat To The Beat |

This version of Die Young Stay Pretty was released by Blondie in 1979.

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Die young, stay pretty
Die young, stay pretty
Deteriorate in your own time
Tell ’em you’re dead and wither away
Are you living alone or with your family?
A dried up twig on your family tree?
Are you waiting for the reaper to arrive?
Or just to die by the hand of love?
Love for youth, love for youth
So, die young and stay pretty

Leave only the best behind
Slipping sensibilities
Tragedy in your own dream

Oh, you sit all alone in your rocking chair
Transistor pressed against an ear
Were you waiting at the bus stop all your life?
Or just to die by the hand of love?
Love for youth, love for youth
So live fast ’cause it won’t last

Die young, stay pretty
Die young, stay pretty

Dearly near senility (dearly near senility)
Was it good or maybe you won’t tell?

Die young, stay pretty
Die young, stay pretty


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When you decide to study the lyrics to Die Young Stay Pretty, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Blondie. Some of the lyrics to Die Young Stay Pretty have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Blondie and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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