Lyrics to Mr. Wonderful - Decade Lyrics

This version of Mr. Wonderful was released by The Kinks in 1972.

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It’s that strange and tender magic you do.
Mr. Wonderful,
That’s you.

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About Lyrics and Mr. Wonderful by The Kinks

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

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