Lyrics to
My God

This version of My God was released by Alice Cooper in 1977.

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If I should find myself in blackest night,
and fear is stabbin’ me all over,
a tiny prayer cracks the dark with light,
and I here sounds behind my wall.
Inside, a still, small voice, it calls and calls.
Then like a thunder bolt,
it falls and falls…
My God!
When life becomes more real than children’s games,
or we’ve become too old to play them,
We’ll grow old gracefully,
we’ll hide our shame.
but there’s that voice behind the wall.
And like my conscience,
it is still and small.
Each word is mercy,
protects us all…
My God!
“And like my conscience, it is still and small.
Each word is mercy, protects us all…”
I was a boy,
when tempted,
fell sometimes,
and fell so low,
no one could see me,
save for the eyes of Him that sees my crime.
When sheep,
like me, have drifted lost,
all frightened children who are tempest tossed, down flies His wrath like an albatross…
My God!

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When you decide to study the lyrics to My God, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Alice Cooper. Some of the lyrics to My God have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Alice Cooper and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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