Lyrics to
Miami

This version of Miami was released by John Cougar Mellencamp in 1979.

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Well I hear in Miami they have a lot of girls
Who toast their flesh in the sun
Living on allowances they receive from the old man at home
To keep up appearances to have fun

Hey baby
Living in Miami
I know you’re hip to those hotel alibis
I know you’re nowhere near twenty
But I ain’t the kind to kiss and tell or tell lies

Well they are easy to look at, they are hard to hold
They have high opinions of themselves
But at night you can find them drinking in the bar
Wishing that they could find somebody else

Well they pull and tug on their high fashion clothes
As they strip off their armor in their apartment bedrooms
They wish that somewhere they can find a spark
Well their sights and visions and dreams are set high
They think the world can be won with a smile
I hear ’em giggle out loud, lost in the crowd
Give me a cuddle when we get outside

Hey baby
Living in Miami
I know you’re hip to those hotel alibis
I know you’re nowhere near twenty
But I ain’t the kind to kiss and tell or tell lies

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John Cougar Mellencamp has released many songs over the years besides Miami. John Cougar Mellencamp released songs from 1976 to 2007 spanning across albums like Chestnut Street Incident, A Biography, John Cougar, Nothin' Matters And What If It Did, American Fool, The Kid Inside, Uh-Huh, Scarecrow, The Lonesome Jubilee, Big Daddy, Whenever We Wanted, Human Wheels, Dance Naked, Mr. Happy Go Lucky, John Mellencamp, Rough Harvest, Cuttin' Heads, Trouble No More, and Freedom's Road. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by John Cougar Mellencamp.

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About Lyrics and Miami by John Cougar Mellencamp

The lyrics to Miami are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that John Cougar Mellencamp used when the song was created in 1979. The lyrics to Miami have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only John Cougar Mellencamp 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 Miami by John Cougar Mellencamp. 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 Miami" means the words set to the music of Miami, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by John Cougar Mellencamp. 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 Miami and the lyrics to Miami are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of John Cougar Mellencamp who came here looking just for the lyrics to Miami, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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