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Father O.S.A.

This version of Father O.s.a. was released by Styx in 1973.

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father
you’re a sad old man
your tawdry vest is gray

memories
of a former man
are all your words convey

father
oh can’t you see
the tarnished robe you wear

a crown
for fools
the people laugh
you never seem to hear

father
you’re life’s a ship
that’s never been to sea

the bottle
that surrounds your life
you’ll sail eternally

children
please understand
a man must stand alone

and face a world
he’ll never know
and never call his own

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Father O.s.a., you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Styx. Some of the lyrics to Father O.s.a. have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Styx and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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