Lyrics to
Don’t Mess With Me

This version of Don’T Mess With Me was released by Whitesnake in 1978.

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Fly like an eagle,
An outlaw of the sun,
Stealing ’round your bedroom door
A case of hit ‘n run
Sinner, sinner,
I’m no angel you can see

So I will tell you now
And I won’t say it again,
Don’t mess with me
Oh baby, don’t mess with me

Ride like a demon,
The devil’s only son
A whiskey drinking son of a bitch,
I’ve only just begun
Sinner, sinner,
I’m no angel you can see

I told you once before
And I won’t say it again,
Don’t mess with me,
Don’t mess with me

Soothe me baby like I soothe you,
Treat me baby like I treat you
Soothe me baby like I soothe you,
Treat me baby like I…

Fly like an eagle
An outlaw of the sun,
Never take what sleeps around
But, always get your fun
Sinner, sinner,
You’re no angel I can see

I told you once before
And I won’t say it again,
Don’t mess with me,
Don’t mess with me

‘Cos I’m a sinner
And sinners ain’t the loving kind

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About Lyrics and Don’T Mess With Me by Whitesnake

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

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

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