Lyrics to
Jessica White

This version of Jessica White was released by Meat Loaf in 1978.

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Reaching out to touch the sky
Swimming in the morning rain
We’ve only just begun to live
We’ve only just begun to see

Jessica White, won’t you stay with me a while
Jessica White, won’t you stay with me a while
Jessica White, won’t you stay with me a while
With me a while
Jessica, smile with me a while

Jessica White, wanna meet me tonight?
You know I will ‘cuz I need you
Jessica White, lets turn off the lights
Jessica White, I love you
You know I love you too

Jessica White, won’t you stay with me a while
Jessica White, won’t you stay with me a while
Jessica White, won’t you stay with me a while
With me a while
Jessica, smile with me a while

Jessica, smile with me a while
Jessica, smile with me a while

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About Lyrics and Jessica White by Meat Loaf

When you decide to study the lyrics to Jessica White, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Meat Loaf. Some of the lyrics to Jessica White have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Meat Loaf and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Jessica White if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Jessica White" means the words set to the music of Jessica White, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Meat Loaf. 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 Jessica White and the lyrics to Jessica White are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Meat Loaf who came here looking just for the lyrics to Jessica White, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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