Lyrics to
Don’t Believe What You Read

This version of Don’T Believe What You Read was released by Barbra Streisand in 1977.

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They say her pretty face is enough to launch a ship
Mix that with charm and style
How you gonna miss
With all the admiration the world is at her feet
She’s living for attention when she’s spotted on the street
Don’t believe it
Don’t believe what you read
Don’t believe it
About the life that I lead
Dinner an a movie
I’ll just show my face in town
Rumors fly so fast that I don’t try to live’em down
Gets old answering questions why and trying to explain
Why I prefer to stay at home with friends and entertain
Don’t believe it
Don’t believe what you read
Don’t believe it
About the life that I lead
To the outside world it’s paradise
They’d love to be in my shoes
They don’t seem to realize that it’s not like in the news
Don’t believe it
Don’t believe what you read
Don’t believe it
About the life that I lead
I just read in the papers that I bought some birds today
Flying all around my house
Just havin’ their own sweet way
It makes me feel so foolish ’cause they called my house a cage
But there’s nothing I can do
Just puts me in a rage
Don’t believe it
Don’t believe what you read
Don’t believe it
About the life that I lead
Don’t believe it
Don’t believe what you read
Don’t believe it
About the life that we lead

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Don’T Believe What You Read, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Barbra Streisand. Some of the lyrics to Don’T Believe What You Read have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Barbra Streisand and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Don’T Believe What You Read 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 Don’T Believe What You Read" means the words set to the music of Don’T Believe What You Read, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Barbra Streisand. 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 Don’T Believe What You Read and the lyrics to Don’T Believe What You Read are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Barbra Streisand who came here looking just for the lyrics to Don’T Believe What You Read, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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