Lyrics to
Fire Eater

This version of Fire Eater was released by Three Dog Night in 1970.

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If you try to screw me, baby, take my advice.
Opportunity, baby, never knocks twice.
If you try to fool me, don’t play around,
‘Cause when I get to you, baby, I won’t make no sound,
‘Cause I’ll be creeping.

I’ll be creeping baby,
I’ll hold you in my arms.
No one will ever know.
And now that we’re apart,
I won’t take no less.

Take all your things and move far away. Hah!
You can take your things, baby.
Don’t you try to sneak away.
You can change you address,
You won’t get far
Don’t make no difference wherever you are.
I’ll be creeping, baby, creeping around,
‘Cause I’ll be creeping.

Change you address, you won’t get far
Don’t make no difference wherever you are.
I’ll be creeping, creeping around.
‘Cause I’ll be creeping.

I’ll hold you in my arms.
No body ever knows.
Now then that we’re apart,
I won’t take no less.
Creeping, you know I’m always creeping.
Creeping, you know I’m always creeping.
Creeping, you know I’m always creeping.

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Three Dog Night has released many songs over the years besides Fire Eater. Three Dog Night released songs from 1968 to 1976 spanning across albums like Three Dog Night, Suitable For Framing, It Ain't Easy, Naturally, Harmony, Seven Separate Fools, Cyan, Hard Labor, Coming Down Your Way, and American Pastime. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Three Dog Night.

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About Lyrics and Fire Eater by Three Dog Night

The lyrics to Fire Eater are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Three Dog Night used when the song was created in 1970. The lyrics to Fire Eater have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Three Dog Night and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Fire Eater by Three Dog Night. 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 Fire Eater" means the words set to the music of Fire Eater, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Three Dog Night. 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 Fire Eater and the lyrics to Fire Eater are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Three Dog Night who came here looking just for the lyrics to Fire Eater, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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