Lyrics to
Emerald City Sequence

This version of Emerald City Sequence was released by Diana Ross in 1978.

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I want to be seen green
Wouldn’t be caught dead, red
‘Cause if you are seen green
It means you got mean bread

You’ve got to be seen green
To show that you’re stuff’s layed
If you’re not seen green
You better be wearing jade

Oh, you’ve got to be seen green
Don’t tell them your cupboard’s bare
That you gave up one week’s feed
To pay for your colored hair
Oh, oh, oh

I thought it over and green is dead
‘Till I change my mind, the color is red

I wouldn’t be seen green
Ooo! Oo! Oo! Ah! Ah!
I wouldn’t be caught dead
And if I’m caught at all
Then catch me in dead, red
Ooo!
You’ve got to be dead red
You’ve got to be real hot
So throw away those green gems
And wear rubies on your yacht

You’ve got to be dead, red
You’ve got to have flash and flair
And if you’re not seen red
Then you shouldn’t be seen nowhere
Ah!

How quickly fashion goes down the drain.
Last week when you all was wearin’ pink
Already for me red was old.
The ultimate brick is gold.
That’s the new color, children

Golden gold
Golden gold
Golden gold
Golden gold

You got to be seen gold
Watch out for the new kind
You got to have old gold
Like some from a gold mine

You got to be wearin’ gold
The twenty four carat kind
And once you’ve shined it up
It should ought to make you blind, ah!

You got to be seen in gold
To show that you’re super slick
It helps to pay tips and tolls
It’s the ultimate yellow brick
It’s the ultimate
Gold

Golden gold
Golden gold
Golden gold
Golden gold
Golden gold
Golden gold
Golden gold
Gold, gold, gold, gold
Gold!

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About Lyrics and Emerald City Sequence by Diana Ross

The lyrics for Emerald City Sequence are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1978 song by Diana Ross. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Emerald City Sequence 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 Emerald City Sequence - Diana Ross and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Emerald City Sequence by Diana Ross 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 Emerald City Sequence" means the words set to the music of Emerald City Sequence, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Diana Ross. 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 Emerald City Sequence and the lyrics to Emerald City Sequence are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Diana Ross who came here looking just for the lyrics to Emerald City Sequence, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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