Lyrics to
Don’t Blame It On Love

This version of Don’T Blame It On Love was released by Hall & Oates in 1978.

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Mighty high or low down
Change around the words and they say
Low is not the last one
Cause you know, if you know
You’d be learning from a hit lip
Success is sitting fat and limp
But don’t blame it on the system
It’s only natural only natural
Blame it on yourself
Blame it on me
But don’t blame it on love
Who d’ya think your heroes are?
Failures everyone
But you all love them for their innocence
When they fall when they fall
The loser’s always deified
Winner only takes home the prize
But don’t blame it on the system
It’s only natural it’s only natural
For you to blame it on yourself
Blame it on me
But don’t blame it on love

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About Lyrics and Don’T Blame It On Love by Hall & Oates

When you decide to study the lyrics to Don’T Blame It On Love, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Hall & Oates. Some of the lyrics to Don’T Blame It On Love have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Hall & Oates and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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