Lyrics to
Kerry

Released by Hall & Oates in 1976
From the Album: Bigger Than Both Of Us |

This version of Kerry was released by Hall & Oates in 1976.

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Kerry, so cool and so clever
I know, cause you told me so
You’ve got it bad for yourself
And nobody else can hold a candle to you
So I’m told
Won’t you give us a break
Don’t take it too far
Won’t you give yourself a chance
You’re enough as you are.
Yeah, you might be O.K.
And it might be all wrong
To carry on

Oh Kerry you can carry on
Just don’t get carried away
Oh Kerry, it’s O.K. to carry on
But don’t get carried away,

Watch it now, Kay oh Kerry
I must have been crazy to think
That I could find you
When you were lost
Girl, you can’t know what you’re saying
When you slip away
Tell me baby, is it worth the cost


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Hall & Oates has released many songs over the years besides Kerry. Hall & Oates released songs from 1972 to 2004 spanning across albums like Whole Oats, Abandoned Luncheonette, War Babies, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Bigger Than Both Of Us, Beauty On A Back Street, Along The Red Ledge, X-Static, Voices, Private Eyes, H2O, Big Bam Boom, Ooh Yeah!, Change Of Season, Marigold Sky, Do It For Love, and Our Kind Of Soul. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Hall & Oates.

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About Lyrics and Kerry by Hall & Oates

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

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

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