Lyrics to Lady Sings The Blues

This version of Lady Sings The Blues was released by Diana Ross in 1972.

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Lady sings the blues
She got them bad
She feels so sad

Wants the world to know
Just what the blues is all about

The blues ain’t nothing
But a pain in your heart
When you got a bad start
You and your man have to part

Lady sings the blues…

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About Lyrics and Lady Sings The Blues by Diana Ross

When you decide to study the lyrics to Lady Sings The Blues, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by Diana Ross. Some of the lyrics to Lady Sings The Blues have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Diana Ross and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Lady Sings The Blues 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 Lady Sings The Blues" means the words set to the music of Lady Sings The Blues, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Diana Ross. 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 Lady Sings The Blues and the lyrics to Lady Sings The Blues are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Diana Ross who came here looking just for the lyrics to Lady Sings The Blues, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.