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Even The Losers

This version of Even The Losers was released by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers in 1979.

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Well it was nearly summer, we sat on your roof
Yeah we smoked cigarettes and we stared at the moon
And I showed you stars you never could see
Babe, it couldn’t have been that easy to forget about me

Baby time meant nothin’ anything seemed real
Yeah you could kiss like fire and you made me feel
Like every word you said was meant to be
Babe, it couldn’t have been that easy to forget about me

Baby even the losers
Get lucky sometimes
Even the losers
Keep a little bit of pride
They get lucky sometimes

Two cars parked on the overpass
Rocks hit the water like broken glass
Should have known right then it was too good to last
It’s such a drag when you live in the past

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

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