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I Never Wrote Those Songs

This version of I Never Wrote Those Songs was released by Alice Cooper in 1977.

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My tape recorder
It must be lyin’
‘Cause this I just can’t believe
I hear a voice that’s cryin’
That’s not me

The wheel goes round
I hear a sound
It’s comin’ out all wrong
And I swear to you I never wrote that song

I been livin’ in my own shell so long
The only place I ever feel at home

And oh, that music
I hate those lyrics
It stayed inside me so long
And I swear to you I never wrote that song

But pardon me
I’m not lookin’ for sympathy
Not sympathy
I’m just thinking out loud
The melody
It goes nowhere pointlessly
Silence please

I been livin’ in my own shell so long
The only place I ever feel at home

And oh, that music
I hate those lyrics
It stayed inside me so long
And I swear to you I never

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The lyrics for I Never Wrote Those Songs are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by Alice Cooper. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to I Never Wrote Those Songs 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 Never Wrote Those Songs - Alice Cooper 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 Never Wrote Those Songs by Alice Cooper 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 Never Wrote Those Songs" means the words set to the music of I Never Wrote Those Songs, 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 Never Wrote Those Songs and the lyrics to I Never Wrote Those Songs 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 Never Wrote Those Songs, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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