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Esther Be The One

This version of Esther Be The One was released by Zz Top in 1979.

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Esther be the one that shoots a machine gun
Whether you like it or not.
Midnight or daylight, stay out of her sight
‘Cuz I heard she’s one heck of a shot.
Esther be the one, she’s the only one.
She’ll get you with her gun when the wolf starts howlin’ at the moon.

And you will feel her love bullets when you look her in the eyes.
There ain’t no way to escape.
And that’s when her fever will materialize,
But it ain’t no unfortunate fate.
Esther be the one, she’s the only one.
She’ll get you with her gun when the wolf starts howlin’ at the moon.

It ain’t nothin’, but it’s somethin’ so “deal”.
Don’t get branded ’cause her ammo ain’t real.

If she gets you in a corner, don’t let her mess you ’round
And don’t let her blow you away.
If you can’t dig on Esther, you turn and leave town
’cause if you think she’s bad you ought to see her sister.
Esther be the one, but she’s not the only one.
She’ll get you with her gun when the wolf starts howlin’ at the moon.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Esther Be The One, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Zz Top. Some of the lyrics to Esther Be The One have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Zz Top and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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