Lyrics to
Dirt

This version of Dirt was released by Lou Reed in 1978.

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It’s been a long time, since I’ve spoken to you
was it the right time
Your current troubles, and you know, they’ll get much worse
I hope you know how much you enjoy them
You’re a pig of a person, If there’s a justice in this world
hey, how about that
Your lack of conscience and your lack of morality
well, more and more people know all about it

Do you remember that song by a dude named Bobby Fuller
It went like this:
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won

We sat around the other night, me and the guys
trying to find the right word
That would best fit and describe
you people like that
That no principle has touched, no principle’s baptized
how about that
They’d eat shit and say it tasted good
if there was some money in it for them

Hey, you remember that song about this guy from Texas
Whose name was — Bobby Fuller
I’ll sing it for you, it went like this:
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won

You’re just dirt
You’re just dirt, The only word for you is dirt
That’s the only word that –

– hurt, You’re just dirt
That’s all you’re worth – cheap, cheap dirt
You know they call it –
Cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, uptown dirt
you’re just – cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, uptown dirt
You’re just dirt – nothing but – cheap uptown dirt
That’s all you’re worth – It’s just – cheap, cheap, uptown dirt
That’s all you’re worth now (cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, uptown dirt)
You’re just dirt (cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap uptown dirt)
(Cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, uptown dirt)
(Cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, uptown dirt)
(Cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, uptown dirt)

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Lou Reed has released many songs over the years besides Dirt. Lou Reed released songs from 1972 to 2000 spanning across albums like Transformer, Lou Reed, Berlin, Sally Can't Dance, Rock 'n' Roll Animal, Coney Island Baby, Rock And Roll Heart, Street Hassle, The Bells, Growing Up In Public, The Blue Mask, Legendary Hearts, New Sensations, Mistrial, New York, Magic And Loss, Set The Twilight Reeling, and Ecstasy. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Lou Reed.

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The lyrics for Dirt are defined as the words making up the song released by Lou Reed in 1978. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Dirt have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Lou Reed and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Dirt by Lou Reed if you think through it. 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 Dirt" means the words set to the music of Dirt, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Lou Reed. 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 Dirt and the lyrics to Dirt are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Lou Reed who came here looking just for the lyrics to Dirt, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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