Lyrics to
Looking For Love

This version of Looking For Love was released by Lou Reed in 1979.

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Hey, hey, hey

Hey now, there’s a lovely girl
and she’s stealin’ all your sheets
Hey now, there’s a lovely girl
that’s the kind of girl to meet, oh
Hey now, there’s a lonely boy
and he’s lookin’, looking for love, ha, ah
Ah now, there’s a lovely girl
and she’s looking for some stud.
But she’s, hey now, won’t you give it, now
won’t you give it, give it, give it me, please, oh
Hey now, there’s a lucky girl
give it, give it, give it to me
hey, hey, hey

Hey, hey, hey

Hey now, there’s an international boy
walkin’ around the world
Hey now, there’s a jet set star
lookin’ still for some little pick up girl, I said –
– Hey now, you used to scratch my back
and you look across the board
Hey, hey now, when you ripped open my shirt
you see that’s written, hey, The Wanderer on my chest
Hey, hey now, there’s a dancing girl
Kiss you, kiss you, kiss you good bye, ooohhh baby ooohhh
Hey now, there’s a lovely child
Look, look, looking for love

Hey, hey, hey
Give it to us, baby, now, yeah
There goes my chest, groovy on my best, baby, hey, yeah

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Lou Reed has released many songs over the years besides Looking For Love. Lou Reed released songs from 1972 to 2000 spanning across albums like Transformer, Lou Reed, Berlin, Sally Can't Dance, Rock 'n' Roll Animal, Coney Island Baby, Rock And Roll Heart, Street Hassle, The Bells, Growing Up In Public, The Blue Mask, Legendary Hearts, New Sensations, Mistrial, New York, Magic And Loss, Set The Twilight Reeling, and Ecstasy. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Lou Reed.

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About Lyrics and Looking For Love by Lou Reed

The lyrics to Looking For Love are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Lou Reed in 1979. Elements of the lyrics to Looking For Love are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Lou Reed and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Looking For Love back when it was created.

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

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