Lyrics to
Forbidden Fruit

This version of Forbidden Fruit was released by The Band in 1975.

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High and lonesome out on Times Square
Haven’t got a dime, ain’t got a prayer
Deliver us, Lord, from this golden calf
People only want what they cannot have

Forbidden fruit
That’s the fruit that you’d better not taste
Forbidden fruit
You’ve got one life that you’d better not waste

How can I walk with this ball and chain?
How can I land in this hurricane?
Or is this part of man’s evolution
To be torn between truth and illusion?

Forbidden fruit
That’s the route that you’d better not take
Forbidden fruit
Just watch out for the sign of the snake

Little brother got caught in the web
He ran off to join the living dead
Been through the mill, seen the cross on the hill
He sold his soul just for a thrill

Forbidden fruit
In hot pursuit out on a limb
Forbidden fruit
Your whole world is closing in

You got the picture but missed the drift
You got me workin’ the graveyard shift
I never went in for no burglary
But there’s a stranger inside of me

Forbidden fruit
Don’t you shoot the whole works away
Forbidden fruit
It’s too high of a price to pay

How can you hear with a bad connection?
You can’t see when there’s no reception
Keep your distance, don’t fool with taboo
‘Cause it’ll overtake and undertake you

Forbidden fruit
That’s the fruit that you’d better not taste
Forbidden fruit
You’ve got one life that you’d better not waste

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The lyrics to Forbidden Fruit are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by The Band in 1975. Elements of the lyrics to Forbidden Fruit are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by The Band and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Forbidden Fruit back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Forbidden Fruit by The Band in a number of 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 Forbidden Fruit" means the words set to the music of Forbidden Fruit, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Band. 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 Forbidden Fruit and the lyrics to Forbidden Fruit are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Forbidden Fruit, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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