Lyrics to
In A Hand Or A Face

This version of In A Hand Or A Face was released by The Who in 1975.

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Ain’t it funny how they’re all Cleopatra
When you gaze into their past
When you find out about their birth signs
You realize there was no need to have asked

All the history of a soul in torment
Ingrained in a hand or a face
Ain’t it funny how they all fire the pistol
At the wrong end of the race

I am going round and round
I am going round and round
I am going round and round
I am going round
Going round and round

There’s a man going through your dust bin
Only this time he’s looking for food
There’s a tear in his eye, you don’t know him
Oh but you know what he’s going through

Ain’t it funny that you can’t seem to help him
Feelin’ sick as he staggers away
Is it weird that you hate a stranger
Can a detail correct your dismay

I am going round and round
I am going round and round
I am going round and round
I am going round
Going round and round

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The Who has released many songs over the years besides In A Hand Or A Face. The Who released songs from 1965 to 1982 spanning across albums like The Who Sings My Generation, A Quick One / Happy Jack, The Who Sell Out, Tommy, Who's Next, Quadrophenia, The Who By Numbers, Who Are You, Face Dances, and It's Hard. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Who.

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About Lyrics and In A Hand Or A Face by The Who

The lyrics for In A Hand Or A Face are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1975 song by The Who. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to In A Hand Or A Face 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 In A Hand Or A Face - The Who 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 In A Hand Or A Face by The Who 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 In A Hand Or A Face" means the words set to the music of In A Hand Or A Face, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Who. 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 In A Hand Or A Face and the lyrics to In A Hand Or A Face are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Who who came here looking just for the lyrics to In A Hand Or A Face, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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