Lyrics to
Heartbeat

This version of Heartbeat was released by Bad Company in 1977.

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I don’t wanna lose myself in love again,
But my heartbeat keeps on a hammering, yeah.

I met a little cutie back in sixty-
six, She used to tie you up
And beat you with a walking stick.
I said, ‘Mama, call a doctor you
must be sick!’
She told me that’s the only way I
get my kicks.

I don’t wanna lose myself in love again,
But my heartbeat keeps on a hammering.

I been around the world about a
time and again,
I met a little chick in an opium
den.
She put a spell on me that’d freeze
a man,
I said, ‘help me, save me’, but she
did it again.

I don’t wanna lose myself in love again,
But my heartbeat keeps on a hammering,
yeah, ok.

Oh, oh, oh, yeah.

I met a little lady just yesterday,
Lord, she loves me in a special way.
She put coffee in my tea and she love to say,

‘I wanna hold you, I wanna keep you, baby,
Now don’t be afraid’.

I don’t wanna lose myself in love again,
But my heartbeat keeps on a hammering, yeah.

I don’t wanna lose; I don’t wanna lose,
I don’t wanna lose;
I don’t wanna lose myself in love again, yeah.

No, no, lord no.
I don’t wanna lose myself in love again,
But my heartbeat, yes my beating heart,
My heartbeat keeps on hammering.

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About Lyrics and Heartbeat by Bad Company

The lyrics for Heartbeat are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by Bad Company. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Heartbeat 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 Heartbeat - Bad Company 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 Heartbeat by Bad Company 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 Heartbeat" means the words set to the music of Heartbeat, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bad Company. 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 Heartbeat and the lyrics to Heartbeat are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bad Company who came here looking just for the lyrics to Heartbeat, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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