Lyrics to
Everybody Has The Blues

This version of Everybody Has The Blues was released by James Taylor in 1976.

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Poor puppy, you look so sad, I guess you think that no one ever felt so bad before.
Everybody has the blues, everybody has the blues.
Everybody knows the way that you feel today.

Everybody gets to sit and cry, everybody gets to wonder why.
Everybody gets to watch the sky turn grey.

Maybe you lost your job, maybe you lost your girl,
maybe you feel like you’re losing your mind that’s not the end of the world.

Everybody gets to feel some pain, everyone got to get to caught out in the rain.
Everybody got some days that they can’t explain.

Everybody got the blues, everybody has the blues.
Everybody knows the way that you feel today

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James Taylor has released many songs over the years besides Everybody Has The Blues. James Taylor released songs from 1968 to 2002 spanning across albums like James Taylor, Sweet Baby James, Mud Slide Slim And The Blue Horizon, One Man Dog, Walking Man, Gorilla, In The Pocket, JT, Flag, Dad Loves His Work, That's Why I'm Here, Never Die Young, New Moon Shine, Hourglass, and October Road. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by James Taylor.

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About Lyrics and Everybody Has The Blues by James Taylor

When you decide to study the lyrics to Everybody Has The Blues, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by James Taylor. Some of the lyrics to Everybody Has The Blues have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only James Taylor and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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