Lyrics to
Green Grass

This version of Green Grass was released by Bill Withers in 1974.

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Looking out at the people looking in
Feeling good must be some kind of sin
Looking in at the people looking out
Feeling guilty – scared to move about
Looking up at the people looking down
Taking tranquilizers by the pound
Looking down at the people looking up
Getting mad ’cause they can’t get enough.

Ah, but that green grass on the other side
Is just an illusion
We all have our own confusion.

Rich people watching the people poor
Trying to figure out how to get some more
Poor people watching people rich
You know, they call them dirty you-know-which.
Ugly people watching the people pretty
Say they can’t get down to the nitty-gritty
Pretty people watching people ugly
Say I show couldn’t stand you to kiss and hug me.

Ah, but that green grass on the other side
Is just an illusion
We all have our own confusion.

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About Lyrics and Green Grass by Bill Withers

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

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

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