Lyrics to
Dishonest Modesty

This version of Dishonest Modesty was released by Carly Simon in 1976.

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You come on strong telling everyone
About your latest role
How you saved the movie, stole the show
Well everybody knows
And if you have no time for all your offers
You’ll see that I get called
And if you have no time for all your men
You’ll see that I get balled

Well I don’t expect humility
But what about some good old fashioned dishonest modesty

You say that you can understudy
All the other parts
You can write a song that will make us cry
that touches all our hearts
And you can House and Garden
Vogue and Glamour, Mademoiselle
But I know you can Bitch and Screw
And Penthouse just aswell

I don’t expect humility
But what about some good old dishonest modesty

You try to be unique
But somehow something’s wrong
‘Cause your flower childish vision of life
Cannot last too long
You’re over thrity and underweight
Though you call yourself petite
And you hang around with all the clowns
You think they’re so elite

Well I don’t expect humility
But what about some good old fashioned dishonest modesty

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Carly Simon has released many songs over the years besides Dishonest Modesty. Carly Simon released songs from 1971 to 2008 spanning across albums like Carly Simon, Anticipation, No Secrets, Hotcakes, Playing Possum, Another Passenger, Boys In The Trees, Spy, Come Upstairs, Torch, Hello Big Man, Spoiled Girl, Coming Around Again, Working Girl, Have You Seen Me Lately, My Romance, This Is My Life, Letters Never Sent, Film Noir, The Bedroom Tapes, Piglet's Big Movie, Christmas Is Almost Here Again, Moonlight Serenade, Into White, and This Kind Of Love. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carly Simon.

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About Lyrics and Dishonest Modesty by Carly Simon

The lyrics to Dishonest Modesty are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Carly Simon used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to Dishonest Modesty have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Carly Simon and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Dishonest Modesty by Carly Simon. 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 Dishonest Modesty" means the words set to the music of Dishonest Modesty, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Carly Simon. 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 Dishonest Modesty and the lyrics to Dishonest Modesty are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Carly Simon who came here looking just for the lyrics to Dishonest Modesty, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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