Lyrics to
Never Been Sold Before

This version of Never Been Sold Before was released by Alice Cooper in 1973.

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You ask me, baby
Can you work tonight
I’ve been up, babe
Since broad daylight

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I just can’t believe
That you’re sellin’ me
You never sold me before
I just can’t recall
You’re like a whore

Oh yeah, I’m bad tonight
You really like my style
If you want me
Can’t even buy my smile

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Now I find come around
Just to lay this money on you, babe
I’m sick of tradin’ tricks and dicks
And I’m, I’m really sick of you
Oh I –

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Never been sold before
And I’ll never be hurt again
No, I never been sold before
And I’ll never be hurt again

I just can’t believe
That you’re sellin’ me
You never sold me before
I just can’t recall
You little whore, no no no no no

Never been sold before
And I’ll never be hurt again
No, I never been sold before
And I’ll never be hurt again

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Never Been Sold Before, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Alice Cooper. Some of the lyrics to Never Been Sold Before 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 Never Been Sold Before 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 Never Been Sold Before" means the words set to the music of Never Been Sold Before, 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 Never Been Sold Before and the lyrics to Never Been Sold Before 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 Never Been Sold Before, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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