Lyrics to
Jennifer

This version of Jennifer was released by Styx in 1976.

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Jennifer
She drinks her sherry wine
She keeps her lady’s love for me all the time
She’s seventeen, barely old enough to cry
A child in her father’s eyes
A woman every night

Her love,
gives me the power
Her dreams carry me on
Jennifer, so inviting
That I sing

Jennifer
She took me by surprise
She told me that she’s much too young to keep me satisfied
Jennifer, ah so delicate and shy
A child in her mother’s eyes but
A woman every night

Her love,
gives me the power
Her dreams carry me on
Jennifer, so inviting
That I sing…

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The lyrics to Jennifer are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Styx in 1976. Elements of the lyrics to Jennifer are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Styx and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Jennifer back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Jennifer by Styx in a number of 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 Jennifer" means the words set to the music of Jennifer, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Styx. 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 Jennifer and the lyrics to Jennifer are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Styx who came here looking just for the lyrics to Jennifer, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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