Lyrics to
Great Expectations

This version of Great Expectations was released by Kiss in 1976.

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You’re sittin’ in your seat
And then you stand and clutch your breast
Our music drives you wild along with the rest

You watch me singing this song
You see what my mouth can do
And you wish you were the one I was doing it to

And you watch me playin’ guitar
And you feel what my fingers can do
And you wish you were the one I was doing it to
Well, listen

You’ve got great expectations
You’ve got great expectations

You’re dying to be seen
And you wave and call my name
But in the day it seems that I’m a million miles away

You watch me beatin’ my drum
And you know what my hands can do
And you wish you were the one I was doing it to
Well, listen

You’ve got great expectations
You’ve got great expectations
You’ve got great expectations

Then you feels these eyes from the stage
And you see me staring at you
And you hear between the lines, my voice is calling to you
Well, listen

You’ve got great expectations
You’ve got great expectations
You’ve got great expectations, do you want to play the role
You’ve got great expectations, you’d even sell me your soul
You’ve got great expectations
You’ve got great expectations
You’ve got great expectations, do you want to play the role
You’ve got great expectations, you’d even sell me your soul
You’ve got great expectations, as long as you can play the role
You’ve got great expectations

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Kiss has released many songs over the years besides Great Expectations. Kiss released songs from 1974 to 1998 spanning across albums like Kiss, Hotter Than Hell, Dressed To Kill, Rock And Roll Over, Destroyer, Love Gun, Dynasty, Unmasked, Music From The Elder, Creatures Of The Night, Lick It Up, Animalize, Asylum, Crazy Nights, Hot In The Shade, Revenge, Carnival Of Souls: The Final Sessions, and Psycho Circus. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Kiss.

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About Lyrics and Great Expectations by Kiss

The lyrics to Great Expectations are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Kiss in 1976. Elements of the lyrics to Great Expectations are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Kiss and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Great Expectations back when it was created.

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

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