Lyrics to
Nobody Loves You (When You’re Down And Out)

Released by John Lennon in 1974
From the Album: Walls And Bridges |

This version of Nobody Loves You (When You’Re Down And Out) was released by John Lennon in 1974.

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Nobody loves you when you’re down and out
Nobody sees you when you’re on cloud nine
Everybody’s hustlin’ for a buck and a dime
I’ll scratch your back and you scratch mine

I’ve been across to the other side
I’ve shown you everything, I got nothing to hide
And still you ask me do I love you, what it is, what it is
All I can tell you is it’s all show biz
All I can tell you is it’s all show biz

Nobody loves you when you’re down and out
Nobody knows you when you’re on cloud nine
Everybody’s hustlin’ for a buck and a dime
I’ll scratch your back and you knife mine

I’ve been across the water now so many times
I’ve seen the one eyed witchdoctor leading the blind
And still you ask me do I love you, what you say, what you say
Everytime I put my finger on it, it slips away
Everytime I put my finger on it, it slips away

Well I get up in the morning and I’m looking in the mirror to see, ooo wee!
Then I’m lying in the darkness and I know I can’t get to sleep, ooo wee!

Nobody loves you when you’re old and grey
Nobody needs you when you’re upside down
Everybody’s hollerin’ ’bout their own birthday
Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground


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When you decide to study the lyrics to Nobody Loves You (When You’Re Down And Out), you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by John Lennon. Some of the lyrics to Nobody Loves You (When You’Re Down And Out) have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only John Lennon and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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You can understand the lyrics to Nobody Loves You (When You’Re Down And Out) 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 Nobody Loves You (When You’Re Down And Out)" means the words set to the music of Nobody Loves You (When You’Re Down And Out), or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by John Lennon. 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 Nobody Loves You (When You’Re Down And Out) and the lyrics to Nobody Loves You (When You’Re Down And Out) are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of John Lennon who came here looking just for the lyrics to Nobody Loves You (When You’Re Down And Out), but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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