Lyrics to
My Mistake (Was To Love You)

This version of My Mistake (Was To Love You) was released by Marvin Gaye in 1973.

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My mistake was to love you, girl
Love you, girl
My mistake was to give you all
Tell the world

First I had you
In the palm of my hand
But I let you slip through
Like rain to sand
At the beginning
When I didn’t care
Like my own reflection
You were always there

My mistake was to love you, girl
Love you, girl
My mistake was to give you all
Tell the world

You were sweeter
Then my very own skin
But what did I do for you
Not a thing
In front of my friends
You broke me down
Since then darling
It’s hard to track you down

My mistake was to love you, boy
Love you, boy
My mistake was to give my all
Tell the world

Many a smile
You put om ny face
But I paid dearly
With the tears I taste

My tenderness
Made you cold, not sweet
‘Cause if a girl loves you
You only call her weak

My mistake was to love you, boy
Love you, boy
My mistake was to give my all
Tell the world

My mistake was to love you, girl
Love you, girl
My mistake was to give you all
Tell the world

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The lyrics for My Mistake (Was To Love You) are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1973 song by Marvin Gaye. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to My Mistake (Was To Love You) have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for My Mistake (Was To Love You) - Marvin Gaye and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to My Mistake (Was To Love You) by Marvin Gaye in multiple ways. 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 Mistake (Was To Love You)" means the words set to the music of My Mistake (Was To Love You), or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Marvin Gaye. 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 Mistake (Was To Love You) and the lyrics to My Mistake (Was To Love You) are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Marvin Gaye who came here looking just for the lyrics to My Mistake (Was To Love You), but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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