Lyrics to
Massacre

This version of Massacre was released by Thin Lizzy in 1976.

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At a point below zero
There’s no place left to go
Six hundred unknown heroes
Were killed like sleeping buffalo

Through the devil’s canyon
Across the battlefield
Death has no companion
The spirit is forced to yield

There goes the bandolero
Through the hole in the wall
He’s a coward but doesn’t care though
In fact, he doesn’t care at all

The general that’s commanding
He’s defending what he fears
While the troops they are depending
On reinforcements from the rear

If God is in the heavens
How can this happen here?
In His name, they used the weapons
For the massacre

There is a point below zero
Where the sun can see the land
Six hundred unknown heroes
Lay dead in the sand

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Thin Lizzy has released many songs over the years besides Massacre. Thin Lizzy released songs from 1971 to 1983 spanning across albums like Thin Lizzy, New Day, Shades Of A Blue Orphanage, Vagabonds Of The Western World, Nightlife, Fighting, Jailbreak, Johnny The Fox, Bad Reputation, Black Rose: A Rock Legend, Chinatown, Renegade, and Thunder And Lightning. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Thin Lizzy.

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About Lyrics and Massacre by Thin Lizzy

The lyrics for Massacre are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1976 song by Thin Lizzy. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Massacre 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 Massacre - Thin Lizzy 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 Massacre by Thin Lizzy 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 Massacre" means the words set to the music of Massacre, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Thin Lizzy. 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 Massacre and the lyrics to Massacre are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Thin Lizzy who came here looking just for the lyrics to Massacre, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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