Lyrics to
Not A Chance

This version of Not A Chance was released by Don Williams in 1978.

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Oh, If you could only see me
In the day or in the night
Maybe then you would believe me
When I say everything’s alright.

Have I told you if you leave me
Winter, summer, spring or fall
I could never love another
It’s you and me or none at all.

I’ll never smile again
Not me, I’ll never dance
I’ll never love again
Not me, not a chance.

I don’t think I’d get up-tight now
‘Bout this life I live alone
And everything would be alright now
When you just bring it on, back home.

‘Cause, I’ll never smile again
Not me, I’ll never dance
I’ll never love again
Not me, not a chance.

I’ll never smile again
Not me, I’ll never dance
I’ll never love again
Not me, not a chance.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Not A Chance, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Don Williams. Some of the lyrics to Not A Chance have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Don Williams and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Not A Chance 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 Not A Chance" means the words set to the music of Not A Chance, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Don Williams. 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 Not A Chance and the lyrics to Not A Chance are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Don Williams who came here looking just for the lyrics to Not A Chance, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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