Lyrics to
Mellow

This version of Mellow was released by Elton John in 1972.

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Cool grass blowing up the pass
Don’t you know I’m feeling mellow
I love your Roman nose, the way you curl your toes baby
Make me feel so mellow

It’s the same old feeling I get when you’re stealing
Back into my bed again
With the curtains closed and the window froze
By the rhythm of the rain

You make me mellow, you make me mellow
Rocking smooth and slow
Mellow’s the feeling that we get
Watching the coal fire glow

You make me mellow, I make you mellow
Wrecking the sheets real fine
Heaven knows what you sent me Lord
But God this is a mellow time

Going down to the stores in town
Getting all the things we need
Don’t forget the beer my little dear
It helps to sow the mellow seed

And it can’t be bad, all the love I’ve had
Coursing through life
Down in the pass where the wind blows fast
And mellow’s feeling right

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About Lyrics and Mellow by Elton John

When you decide to study the lyrics to Mellow, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by Elton John. Some of the lyrics to Mellow have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Elton John and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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