Lyrics to
Heard It On The X

This version of Heard It On The X was released by Zz Top in 1975.

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Do you remember
back in nineteen sixty-six?
Country Jesus, hillbilly blues,
that’s where I learned my licks.
Oh, from coast to coast and line to line
in every county there,
I’m talkin’ ’bout that outlaw X
is cuttin’ through the air.

Anywhere, y’all,
everywhere, y’all,
I heard it, I heard it,
I heard it on the X.

We can all thank Doctor B
who stepped across the line.
With lots of watts he took control,
the first one of its kind.
So listen to your radio
most each and every night
’cause if you don’t I’m sure you won’t
get to feeling right.

Anywhere, y’all,
everywhere, y’all,
I heard it, I heard it,
I heard it on the X.

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About Lyrics and Heard It On The X by Zz Top

The lyrics for Heard It On The X are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1975 song by Zz Top. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Heard It On The X have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Heard It On The X - Zz Top and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Heard It On The X by Zz Top in multiple 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 Heard It On The X" means the words set to the music of Heard It On The X, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Zz Top. 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 Heard It On The X and the lyrics to Heard It On The X are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Zz Top who came here looking just for the lyrics to Heard It On The X, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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