Lyrics to
Love Makes You Feel

This version of Love Makes You Feel was released by Lou Reed in 1972.

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Life isn’t what is seems
I’m forever drifting into dreams
Such a sad affair
to always be drifting into air

But it’s not what you say or you do
that makes me feel like I am falling
It’s things that we’ve both been through
that makes me feel like I am upside down

And love makes you feel ten foot tall
Yes, love makes you feel ten foot tall

Just a funny thing
I’m forever drifting into dreams
Huh, just not the proper thing
to always be drifting into dreams

But it’s not what you say or you do
that makes me feel like I am falling
It’s things that we’ve both been through
that makes me feel like I am upside down

And love makes you feel ten foot tall
Yes, love makes you feel ten foot tall

And it sounds like this

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Lou Reed has released many songs over the years besides Love Makes You Feel. 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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The lyrics to Love Makes You Feel are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Lou Reed used when the song was created in 1972. The lyrics to Love Makes You Feel have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Lou Reed 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 Love Makes You Feel by Lou Reed. 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 Love Makes You Feel" means the words set to the music of Love Makes You Feel, 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 Love Makes You Feel and the lyrics to Love Makes You Feel 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 Love Makes You Feel, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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