Lyrics to
Head Over Heels

This version of Head Over Heels was released by Midnight Oil in 1978.

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I’m head over heels
You know how it feels to be in love
I’m head over heels
Holding back the chills in love
I think I like the sound we’re chasing
I’m giving it all and you’re reciprocating

I’m head over heels
Turning back the wheels of love
We’re stealing the show
You’re stealing my money and love
You’re all the same you part-time lovers
When it starts to rain
You’re hiding under the covers

It just don’t add up
This summer fever
She turns the truth
And I don’t believe her
Stories flying, love is dying
In the end I can’t understand her lying

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Midnight Oil has released many songs over the years besides Head Over Heels. Midnight Oil released songs from 1978 to 2002 spanning across albums like Midnight Oil, Head Injuries, Bird Noises, Place Without A Postcard, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Red Sails In The Sunset, Species Deceases, Diesel And Dust, Blue Sky Mining, Earth And Sun And Moon, Breathe, Redneck Wonderland, and Capricornia. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Midnight Oil.

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About Lyrics and Head Over Heels by Midnight Oil

The lyrics to Head Over Heels are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Midnight Oil used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to Head Over Heels have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Midnight Oil and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Head Over Heels by Midnight Oil. 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 Head Over Heels" means the words set to the music of Head Over Heels, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Midnight Oil. 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 Head Over Heels and the lyrics to Head Over Heels are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Midnight Oil who came here looking just for the lyrics to Head Over Heels, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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