Lyrics to
Lover Boy

This version of Lover Boy was released by Supertramp in 1977.

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I’ll tell you from the start
He’s gonna break your heart
You can’t stop the lover boy
You can’t stop the lover boy

He’s gonna tell you lies
But you won’t realize
Because you can’t stop the lover boy
You can’t stop the lover boy

He’s got a thing in his head
It’s from a book he’s read
It’s got a funny title,
It tells you how to be vital
He took a lot of time
Over every line
Because it’s guaranteed
To satisfy

He’s gonna knock ’em dead
The boy’s got that book read
You can’t stop the lover boy
You can’t stop the lover boy

Right from the clothes he wears
The way he combs his hair
You can’t stop him now, because he knows all the tricks
He used to have a problem but he got it fixed
He took a small apartment
Above a shoe department
And he could see from his window
All the lights in the street glow
There’s a club on the corner
And tonight he will go there
To find a new affair
So all you ladies beware

He’s got to have a good time in the city
He’s got to have a good time every night
He’s gonna love ’em and leave ’em, cheat and decieve ’em
He’s gonna show ’em who’s wrong and who’s right

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About Lyrics and Lover Boy by Supertramp

When you decide to study the lyrics to Lover Boy, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Supertramp. Some of the lyrics to Lover Boy have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Supertramp and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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