Lyrics to
New Town Animal

This version of New Town Animal was released by Xtc in 1978.

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I think my watch has bust and so is time
I borrowed all my love so nothing’s mine
There’s nothing decent on the TV page
Like a new town animal in a furnished cage
It’s gone eleven and the bar is shut
I’m sitting waiting like a real good mutt
I watch TV with an actor’s rage
Like a new town animal in a furnished cage

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Xtc has released many songs over the years besides New Town Animal. Xtc released songs from 1978 to 1992 spanning across albums like White Music, Go 2, Drums And Wires, Black Sea, Mummer, The Big Express, Skylarking, Chips From The Chocolate Fireball, and Nonsuch. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Xtc.

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About Lyrics and New Town Animal by Xtc

The lyrics for New Town Animal are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1978 song by Xtc. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to New Town Animal 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 New Town Animal - Xtc 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 New Town Animal by Xtc 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 New Town Animal" means the words set to the music of New Town Animal, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Xtc. 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 New Town Animal and the lyrics to New Town Animal are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Xtc who came here looking just for the lyrics to New Town Animal, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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