Lyrics to
Maybe You’re Right

This version of Maybe You’Re Right was released by Cat Stevens in 1970.

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Now maybe you’re right and maybe you’re wrong
But I ain’t gonna argue with you no more
I’ve done it for too long.
It was getting so good why then, where did it go?
I can’t think about it no more tell me if you know.
You were loving me, I was loving you
But now there ain’t nothing but regretting
nothing, nothing but regretting everything we do.

I put up with your lies like you put up with mine,
But God knows we should have stopped somewhere,
we could have taken the time,
But time has turned, yes, some call it the end.
So tell me, tell me did you really love me like a friend?
You know you don’t have to pretend,
It’s all over now It’ll never happen again, no no no,
it’ll never happen again , it won’t happen again
Never, never, never, it’ll never happen again
No, no, no, no…..

So maybe you’re right, and maybe you’re wrong
But I ain’t gonna argue with you no more
I’ve done it for too long.
It was getting so good why then, where did it go?
I can’t think about it no more tell me if you know.
You were loving me, I was loving you
But now there ain’t nothing but regretting
nothing, nothing but regretting everything we do.

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The lyrics to Maybe You’Re Right are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Cat Stevens used when the song was created in 1970. The lyrics to Maybe You’Re Right have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Cat Stevens 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 Maybe You’Re Right by Cat Stevens. 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 Maybe You’Re Right" means the words set to the music of Maybe You’Re Right, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Cat Stevens. 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 Maybe You’Re Right and the lyrics to Maybe You’Re Right are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Cat Stevens who came here looking just for the lyrics to Maybe You’Re Right, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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