Lyrics to
Fireball

Released by Deep Purple in 1971
From the Album: Fireball |

This version of Fireball was released by Deep Purple in 1971.

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The golden light about you show me where you’re from
The magic in your eye bewitches all you gaze upon
You stand up on your hill and behop all around you
They wonder where you’re from oh yeah
They wonder where I found you
Oh my love it’s a long way
Where you’re from it’s a long way

I tried to understand you, I tried to love you right
The way you smile and touch me always sets my heart alight
Your lips are like a fire burning through my soul
And people ask me where you’re from
They really wanna know
Oh my soul it’s a long way
Where you’re from it’s a long way

Magic woman wreckin’ up my soul
Things you tell me have never been told
Magic woman I don’t know
Electric before me I love you so I love you so

You’re racing like a fireball dancing like a ghost
You’re gemini and I don’t know which one I like the most
My head is getting broken and my mind is getting bust
But now I’m coming with you down the road of golden dust
Oh my love it’s a long way
Where you’re from it’s a long way


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Deep Purple has released many songs over the years besides Fireball. Deep Purple released songs from 1968 to 2005 spanning across albums like The Book Of Taliesyn, Shades Of Deep Purple, Deep Purple, Deep Purple In Rock, Fireball, Machine Head, Who Do We Think We Are, Burn, Stormbringer, Come Taste The Band, Perfect Strangers, The House Of Blue Light, Slaves And Masters, The Battle Rages On..., Purpendicular, Abandon, Bananas, and Rapture Of The Deep. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Deep Purple.

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About Lyrics and Fireball by Deep Purple

The lyrics for Fireball are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1971 song by Deep Purple. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Fireball have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Fireball - Deep Purple and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

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If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Fireball by Deep Purple in multiple ways. 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 Fireball" means the words set to the music of Fireball, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Deep Purple. 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 Fireball and the lyrics to Fireball are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Deep Purple who came here looking just for the lyrics to Fireball, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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