Lyrics to
Everybody’s Talking

This version of Everybody’S Talking was released by Bill Withers in 1971.

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Everybody’s talkin’ at me
I don’t hear a word they’re sayin’
Only the echoes of my mind
People stop, starin’ at me
I don’t even see their faces
Only the shadow of their eyes

Going where the sun keeps a-shinin’
Through the pourin’ rain
Goin’ where the weather suits my clothes
Bankin’ off the northeast wind
Sailin’ on a summer breeze
Skippin’ over the ocean like a stone

Why, why, why, why?
Why, why, why, why?

I said, everybody keeps talkin’ at me
I don’t hear a word they’re sayin’, now
Only the echoes of my mind
People stop, starin’ at me
I don’t even see their faces
Only the shadow of their eyes

Skippin’, skippin’, skippin’, skip, skip
Over the ocean like a stone

I said, why, why, why?
Why, why?

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About Lyrics and Everybody’S Talking by Bill Withers

When you decide to study the lyrics to Everybody’S Talking, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Bill Withers. Some of the lyrics to Everybody’S Talking have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Bill Withers and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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