Lyrics to
I Am The Audience

This version of I Am The Audience was released by Xtc in 1978.

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I am the audience
There’s no doubt, no consequence
I could make the morning papers
If I use my capers
Let’s be the Audience
I might lose my patience
Polite applause excepted
To the ones selected, as the audience…

Oh I … am the audience
No doubt, no consequence
Cause I’m the Audience

Let’s be the audience
I might lose my patience
Polite applause excepted
To the ones selected
I am the audience
Breakdown the pretence
No longer be silent
Let’s turn to violence

I am the Audience

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About Lyrics and I Am The Audience by Xtc

The lyrics for I Am The Audience are defined as the words making up the song released by Xtc in 1978. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to I Am The Audience have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Xtc and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to I Am The Audience by Xtc if you think through it. 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 I Am The Audience" means the words set to the music of I Am The Audience, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Xtc. 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 I Am The Audience and the lyrics to I Am The Audience are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Xtc who came here looking just for the lyrics to I Am The Audience, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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