Lyrics to
Drowse

Released by Queen in 1976
From the Album: A Day At The Races |

This version of Drowse was released by Queen in 1976.

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It’s the sad-eyed, goodbye, yesterday moments I remember It’s the bleak
street, weak-kneed partings I recall It’s the mistier mist
The hazier days
The brighter sun
And the easier lays
There’s all the more reason for laughing and crying
When you’re younger and life isn’t too hard at all

It’s the fantastic drowse of the afternoon Sundays
That bored you to rages of tears
The unending pleadings, to waste all your good times
In thoughts of your middle aged years
It’s a vertical hold, all the things that you’re told
For the everyday hero it all turns to zero
And there’s all the more reason for living or dying
When you’re young and your troubles are all very small

Out here on the street
We’d gather and meet
And scuff up the sidewalk with endlessly restless feet
Half of the time
We’d broaden our minds
More in the poolhall than we did in the schoolahll
With the downtown chewing-gum bums
Watching the nightlife, the lights and the fun

Never wanted to be the boy next door
Always thought I’d be something more
But it ain’t easy for a downtown boy
It ain’t easy at all
Thinkin’ it right, doin’ it wrong
It’s easier from an armchair
Waves of alternatives wash at my sleepiness Have my eggs poached for
breakfast I guess


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About Lyrics and Drowse by Queen

The lyrics for Drowse are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1976 song by Queen. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Drowse have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Drowse - Queen and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

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If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Drowse by Queen in multiple ways. 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 Drowse" means the words set to the music of Drowse, 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 Drowse and the lyrics to Drowse 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 Drowse, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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