Lyrics to
Last Night

Released by Eric Clapton in 1976
From the Album: No Reason To Cry |

This version of Last Night was released by Eric Clapton in 1976.

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Last night, I lost the best friend I ever had.
Last night, I lost the best friend I ever had.
She’s gone away and left me; that makes me feel so bad.

It’s early in the morning and my love is coming down to you.
It’s early in the morning and my love is coming down to you.
I’ll love you, love you, baby, till I don’t know what to do.

Last night, I lost the best friend I ever had.
Last night, I lost the best friend I ever had.
Now you’ve gone away and left me; that makes me feel so bad.


Eric Clapton has released many songs over the years besides Last Night. Eric Clapton released songs from 1970 to 2005 spanning across albums like Eric Clapton, 461 Ocean Boulevard, There's One In Every Crowd, No Reason To Cry, Slowhand, Backless, Another Ticket, Money And Cigarettes, Behind The Sun, August, Crossroads, Journeyman, Unplugged, From The Cradle, Pilgrim, Riding With The King, Reptile, Me And Mr. Johnson, and Back Home. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Eric Clapton.

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The lyrics to Last Night are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Eric Clapton used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to Last Night have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Eric Clapton and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Last Night by Eric Clapton. 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 Last Night" means the words set to the music of Last Night, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Eric Clapton. 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 Last Night and the lyrics to Last Night are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Eric Clapton who came here looking just for the lyrics to Last Night, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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