Lyrics to
Gypsy

This version of Gypsy was released by Black Sabbath in 1976.

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Watching the universe at the end of another day
Fatalistic ships froma distant shore
In the back of my mind I could see she was standing there
Like the feeling you have
When you’ve been there before

She was a gypsy woman
She was as cold as the day, yeah
She said I’d got it coming
And then she took me away, yeah

She took me through the shadows of her sunken dream
I thought it’s over me, she wasn’t all she seemed

She took my hand and then she started to speak
She told me she’d had the call
With eyes of fire that were burning my soul
She looked into her crystal ball
She read my fortune then she read my mind
She didn’t like my thoughts at all

She showed me shadows, a spectre of life
My soul just wanted to scream
She stared so deeply into my eyes
That’s when I fell into a dream
When I awoke in bed she lay beside me
And she read me with her eyes, she said

So you wanna be a gypsy, come on now
So you wanna be a gypsy, come on now, now, now

Gypsy woman you’re the devil in drag
You are the queen of all hell
You took my body,now you’re wasting my soul
You’ve got me under your spell
And as the sun shines on another day
You’re gonna take my mind as well,it’s over

So you wanna be a gypsy, come on now
So you wanna be a gypsy, come on now
So you wanna be a gypsy, come on now
So you wanna be a gypsy

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About Lyrics and Gypsy by Black Sabbath

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

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

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