Lyrics to
Heartbreaker

This version of Heartbreaker was released by Olivia Newton-John in 1973.

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And there’s no need to tell me I’m just wasting time
But if you tell me break it slowly
I’m in deep water and I’m hanging on a line
And you’re the only one can save me
But if you gotta go
I think you better know

Oh, heartbreaker, if you wanna leave
I won’t make you stay
If you wanna go, better go away
Oh, you loser, offered you a love
You refused her
What you gonna do when she goes away

I know the memories melt their pictures in my mind
Too bad to see they could be fading
But I’ll come home to you
If someday you should find
You want me back then I’ll be waiting
But if you gotta go
I think you better know

Oh, heartbreaker, if you wanna leave
I won’t make you stay
If you wanna go, better go away
Oh, you loser, offered you a love
You refused her
What you gonna do when she goes away

Um, heartbreaker, if you wanna leave
I won’t make you stay
If you wanna go, better go away
Oh, you loser, offered you a love
And you refused her
What you gonna do when she goes away
Oh, what you gonna do when she goes away

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About Lyrics and Heartbreaker by Olivia Newton-John

When you decide to study the lyrics to Heartbreaker, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Olivia Newton-John. Some of the lyrics to Heartbreaker have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Olivia Newton-John and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Heartbreaker if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Heartbreaker" means the words set to the music of Heartbreaker, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Olivia Newton-John. 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 Heartbreaker and the lyrics to Heartbreaker are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Olivia Newton-John who came here looking just for the lyrics to Heartbreaker, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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