Lyrics to
Mother

Released by Chicago in 1971
From the Album: Chicago Iii |

This version of Mother was released by Chicago in 1971.

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Driving down the concrete beams
Looking around and it now seems
Mama Earth is nowhere
Gone from your eyes
Hidden in the crust
Of man’s scientific dreams
She is gone
Natural man took her natural face
Made it a strange and alien place
You can’t bear to look
‘Cause she ain’t there
Our Mother has been raped
And left to die in disgrace
She is gone


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Chicago has released many songs over the years besides Mother. Chicago released songs from 1969 to 2006 spanning across albums like The Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago (Chicago II), Chicago III, Chicago V, Chicago VI, Chicago VII, Chicago VIII, Chicago X, Chicago XI, Hot Streets, Chicago 13, Chicago XIV, Chicago 16, Chicago 17, Chicago 18, Chicago 19, Twenty 1, Night & Day: Big Band, Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album, and Chicago XXX. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Chicago.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Mother, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Chicago. Some of the lyrics to Mother have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Chicago and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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