Lyrics to
Look Back In Anger

This version of Look Back In Anger was released by David Bowie in 1979.

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“You know who I am,” he said
The speaker was an angel
He coughed and shook his crumpled wings
Closed his eyes and moved his lips
“It’s time we should be going”

(Waiting so long, I’ve been waiting so, waiting so)
Look back in anger,
driven by the night
Till you come
(Waiting so long, I’ve been waiting so, waiting so)
Look back in anger,
see it in my eyes
Till you come

No one seemed to hear him
So he leafed through a magazine
And, yawning, rubbed the sleep away
Very sane he seemed to me

(Waiting so long, I’ve been waiting so, waiting so)
Look back in anger,
driven by the night
Till you come
(Waiting so long, I’ve been waiting so, waiting so)
Look back in anger,
feel it in my voice
Till you come

(Waiting so long, ahhh…)
(Waiting so long, I’ve been waiting so, waiting so)

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About Lyrics and Look Back In Anger by David Bowie

The lyrics for Look Back In Anger are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by David Bowie. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Look Back In Anger have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Look Back In Anger - David Bowie and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Look Back In Anger by David Bowie in multiple 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 Look Back In Anger" means the words set to the music of Look Back In Anger, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by David Bowie. 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 Look Back In Anger and the lyrics to Look Back In Anger are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of David Bowie who came here looking just for the lyrics to Look Back In Anger, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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