Lyrics to
Guilty

This version of Guilty was released by Nazareth in 1975.

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Yes baby, I’ve been drinkin’
Shouldn’t come by anymore
But I found myself in trouble darlin’
And I have no place else to go.

I got some whiskey, from a bottle
Got some cocaine, from a friend
And I had to keep on movin’ darlin’
Till I was back in your arms again.

And I’m guilty, I am guilty
And I’ll be guilty for the rest of my life

How come I’m never gonna do
What I’m supposed to do
Seems like everything I do
Never turns out right

That’s how it is with me darlin’
You know I just can’t stand myself
But it takes a whole lot of medicine darlin’
For me to pretend that I’m somebody else.

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Nazareth has released many songs over the years besides Guilty. Nazareth released songs from 1971 to 1998 spanning across albums like Nazareth, Excercises, Razamanaz, Loud 'N' Proud, Rampant, Hair Of The Dog, Play 'N' The Game, Close Enough For Rock 'N' Roll, Expect No Mercy, No Mean City, Malice In Wonderland, The Fool Circle, 2XS, Sound Elixir, The Catch, Cinema, Snakes 'N' Ladders, No Jive, From The Vaults, Move Me, and Boogaloo. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Nazareth.

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About Lyrics and Guilty by Nazareth

The lyrics for Guilty are defined as the words making up the song released by Nazareth in 1975. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Guilty have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Nazareth and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Guilty by Nazareth if you think through it. 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 Guilty" means the words set to the music of Guilty, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Nazareth. 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 Guilty and the lyrics to Guilty are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Nazareth who came here looking just for the lyrics to Guilty, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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