Lyrics to
Offering

This version of Offering was released by Gil Scott-Heron in 1975.

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We have something to offer you
We have music to offer you

Spirits may come into view
We have spirits to offer you

Seasons my change
And feelings may change
But music remains

Seasons may change
And feelings may change
But music remains and it fills you

We have something to offer you
We have new love to offer you
And music to offer you
And spirits to offer you
And new love and music to offer you

We have

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About Lyrics and Offering by Gil Scott-Heron

When you decide to study the lyrics to Offering, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Gil Scott-Heron. Some of the lyrics to Offering have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Gil Scott-Heron and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Offering 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 Offering" means the words set to the music of Offering, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Gil Scott-Heron. 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 Offering and the lyrics to Offering are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Gil Scott-Heron who came here looking just for the lyrics to Offering, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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