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Everything Put Together Falls Apart

This version of Everything Put Together Falls Apart was released by Paul Simon in 1972.

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Paraphernalia
Never hides your broken bones
And I don’t know why
You want to try
It’s plain to see you’re on your own
Oh, I ain’t blind, no
Some folks are crazy
Others walk that borderline
Watch what you’re doing

Taking downs to get off to sleep
And ups to start you on your way
After a while they’ll change your style
I see it happening every day
Oh spare your heart
Everything put together
Sooner or later falls apart
There’s nothing to it, nothing to it
And you can cry
You can lie
For all the good it’ll do you
You can die
But when It’s done
And the police come, and they lay you down for dead
Just remember what I said

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

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