Lyrics to
I Love The Dead

This version of I Love The Dead was released by Alice Cooper in 1973.

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I love the dead before they’re cold
They’re bluing flesh for me to hold
Cadaver eyes upon me see nothing
I love the dead before they rise
No farewells, no goodbyes
I never knew your rotting face
While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave
I have other uses for you, Darling
We love the dead
We love the dead, Yeah

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The lyrics for I Love The Dead are defined as the words making up the song released by Alice Cooper in 1973. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to I Love The Dead have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Alice Cooper 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 Love The Dead by Alice Cooper 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 Love The Dead" means the words set to the music of I Love The Dead, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Alice Cooper. 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 Love The Dead and the lyrics to I Love The Dead are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Alice Cooper who came here looking just for the lyrics to I Love The Dead, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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