Lyrics to
Master Of Sparks

This version of Master Of Sparks was released by Zz Top in 1973.

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High class Slim came floatin’ in
down from the county line.
Just gettin’ right on Saturday night,
ridin’ with some friends of mine.
They invited me just to come and see
just what was on their minds
and then I took my first long look
at the Master of Sparks on high.

In the back of Jimmy’s Mack
stood a round steel cage
welded into shape by Slim,
made out of sucker gauge.
How fine, they cried, now with you inside,
strapped in there safe and sound.
I thought, my-o-my, how the sparks will fly
if that thing ever hit the ground.

Slim was so pleased when I had eased
into his trap of death.
He had slammed the door but I said no more
and I thought I’d breathed my last breath.
We was out in the sticks down Highway Six
and the crowd was just about right.
The speed was too, so out I flew
like a stick of rollin’ dynamite.

When I hit the ground you could hear the sound
and see the sparks a country mile.
End over end I began to spin
but the ball started runnin’ wild.
But it was too late as I met my fate
and the ball started gettin’ hot.
But through the sparks and the flame I knew that the claim
of the Master of Sparks was gone.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Master Of Sparks, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Zz Top. Some of the lyrics to Master Of Sparks have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Zz Top and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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