Lyrics to
Lady Writer

This version of Lady Writer was released by Dire Straits in 1979.

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Lady writer on the TV
Talk about the Virgin Mary
Reminded me of you
Expectation left to come up to yeah

Lady writer on the TV
She had another quality
The way you used to look
And I know you never read a book

Just the way that her hair fell down around her face
And I recall my fall from grace
Another time, another place

Lady writer on the TV
She had all the brains and the beauty
The pictures does not fit
You’d talk to me when you felt like it

Just the way that her hair fell down around her face
And I recall my fall from grace
Another time another place

Yes and your rich old man,
You know he’d a call her a dead ringer
You got the same command
Plus your mother was a Jazz singer

Just the way that her hair fell down around her face
And I recall my fall from grace
Another time another place

Lady writer on the TV
She knew all about a history
You couldn’t hardly write your name
I think I want it just the same as the …

Lady writer on the TV
Talking about the Virgin Mary
You know I’m talking about you and me
And the lady writer on the TV
Talking about the Virgin Mary
Yeah you know I’m talking about you and me
And the lady writer on the TV

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Lady Writer, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Dire Straits. Some of the lyrics to Lady Writer have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Dire Straits and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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