Lyrics to
I Got The News

This version of I Got The News was released by Steely Dan in 1977.

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You
In your Lark
You’re a mark
You’re a screamer
You know
How to hustle
Daddy
Is a rare
Millionaire
I don’t care
Yeah you
Got the muscle
I got the news

Yes dear
How did you know
Can’t you see our love will grow

Take it
In your hand
All the sirens
And the band
Get to bendin’ my ear
How
Was I to know
About the warm
Soulful secret
You been keepin’ for years
I got the news

Slow down I’ll tell you when
I may never walk again

Broadway Duchess
Darling if you only knew
Half as much as
Everybody thinks you do
What I hear
May be true
I would still be proud
To know you

Spanish kissin’
See it glisten
You came ragin’
Love rampagin’
I got the news

Yes dear
How did you know
Can’t you see our love will grow

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About Lyrics and I Got The News by Steely Dan

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

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