Lyrics to
Don’t Hang Up

Released by 10Cc in 1976
From the Album: How Dare You! |

This version of Don’T Hang Up was released by 10Cc in 1976.

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Hello there
How have you been
I’ve called a million times
But to me you’re never in
I know I never had the style
or dash of Errol Flynn
But I loved you

I’m doing really well
I’m as happy as a lark
I got a new apartment
It’s as safe as Central Park
And if they ever mug me
When I’m walking in the dark
Will you know

Don’t hang up
Don’t hang up

Rolled up in my camera
With the big cheese up above
I stumbled from my stag night
To a never ending limousine

The band went la di da di da
And I got loady do di dodied
Lousy violins began to play
I went no no no
And as the vol-au-vents exploded
I was walking down the aisle the other way

Don’t hang up
Don’t hang up
Don’t say, Oooh
Nobody’s safe in our house

Leave me alone
But a but a please
Leave me alone
Just a mo, a minute
I’m so alone

We had
Some honeymoon on itchy bedding
Scum buzzing round your busy body
Dumb waiters waiting sweating straining
All mass-debating my woman

We got a
Bum Guatemala pensione
Crumbling about our ears, Ole
Even the trash man he say

You got a dustbin romance
It’s going down the drain
You got a low impedence
She’s got a rocky terrain

Oo, you got a lot to learn
Oo, you got a lot to learn
You got a lot to learn about women
A lot to learn about women women
What’s to learn about women
We’ve both got a lot to learn

Surprise surprise
There’s a hell of a well in your eyes
Have we won the no Nobel Prize
Has the colour run out of our dies

Surprise surprise
There’s a hell of a well in your eyes
When the barman said “What’re you drinking?”
I said marriage on the rocks

I know I never had the style
or dash of Errol Flynn
But I loved you

Don’t hang up
Don’t hang up
Don’t say ….


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About Lyrics and Don’T Hang Up by 10Cc

When you decide to study the lyrics to Don’T Hang Up, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by 10Cc. Some of the lyrics to Don’T Hang Up have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only 10Cc and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Don’T Hang Up 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 Hang Up" means the words set to the music of Don’T Hang Up, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by 10Cc. 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 Hang Up and the lyrics to Don’T Hang Up are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of 10Cc who came here looking just for the lyrics to Don’T Hang Up, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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