Lyrics to
Moods For Moderns

Released by Elvis Costello in 1979
From the Album: Armed Forces |

This version of Moods For Moderns was released by Elvis Costello in 1979.

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Moods for moderns
I get hit looking for a miss
I never thought that it would come to this

Moods for moderns

Though we may never be the same again
I am so proud that you’ve been taken in vain

What if none of your dreams come true?
I can never run from you
There’s never been a how d’you do
There’s never been an ending
Soon you’ll belong to someone else
And I will be your stranger just pretending

Moods for moderns
Memory lingers
I let you into
Foreign fingers

Moods for moderns

I never thought that would see the day
I never thought that I would give you away

Moods for moderns
Let them break us
Strong and sudden
Foreign fingers


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About Lyrics and Moods For Moderns by Elvis Costello

When you decide to study the lyrics to Moods For Moderns, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Elvis Costello. Some of the lyrics to Moods For Moderns have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Elvis Costello and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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