Lyrics to
Eight Line Poem

This version of Eight Line Poem was released by David Bowie in 1971.

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The tactful cactus by your window
Surveys the prairie of your room
The mobile spins to its collision
Clara puts her head between her paws
They’ve opened shops down West side
Will all the cacti find a home
But the key to the city
Is in the sun that pins
the branches to the sky

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About Lyrics and Eight Line Poem by David Bowie

When you decide to study the lyrics to Eight Line Poem, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by David Bowie. Some of the lyrics to Eight Line Poem have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only David Bowie and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Eight Line Poem 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 Eight Line Poem" means the words set to the music of Eight Line Poem, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by David Bowie. 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 Eight Line Poem and the lyrics to Eight Line Poem are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of David Bowie who came here looking just for the lyrics to Eight Line Poem, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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