Lyrics to
Fishin’ In The Dark

This version of Fishin’ In The Dark was released by Steppenwolf in 1974.

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If my name, Lord, comes around no more
I will surely miss it for a while or so
Should my friends desert me
I would try to make it on my own
And if the stars forsake me
I will surely find my way alone

But don’t you take what we’ve got
Baby, please stay with me
And if you go, leave my heart
Baby, please set me free
On my life I swear to you truly, darlin
I never thought we’d drift apart
If you know, please let me go, darlin’
Don’t leave me fishin’ in the dark

Now, if my hands stop movin’
And my cash don’t come
If I lost my power
I would sell my soul and start again
And if my demon left me
I would chase him down from where he came

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About Lyrics and Fishin’ In The Dark by Steppenwolf

When you decide to study the lyrics to Fishin’ In The Dark, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Steppenwolf. Some of the lyrics to Fishin’ In The Dark have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Steppenwolf and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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