Lyrics to
Doing All Right

This version of Doing All Right was released by Queen in 1973.

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Yesterday my life was in ruins
Now today I know what I’m doing
Got a feeling I should be doing all right
Doing all right

Where will I be this time tomorrow?
Chasing joy or drinking in sorrow
Anyway I should be doing all right
Doing all right

Simply waiting for the sign
Waiting here to find the words to say
Sitting waiting all this time here
All the time you’re away
Sitting waiting for the sign
And anyway I got so far

Yesterday my life was in ruins
Now today I’ve learned what I’m doing
Anyway I should be doing all right
Doing all right

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Doing All Right, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Queen. Some of the lyrics to Doing All Right have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Queen and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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