Lyrics to
Oh Misery

This version of Oh Misery was released by Don Williams in 1974.

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Oh misery, coming down all over me
Oh, can’t you see, you’re the one that I need?

You don’t seem to notice, the way I feel
You don’t seem to understand, my love is real
You don’t seem to care at all, how hard I try
And I do try, Lord knows I try.

Oh misery, coming down all over me
Oh, can’t you see, you’re the only one that I need?

If you’d stop to listen, I know you’d hear
If you’d stop to look, you’d see me here
But you don’t seem to care at all, that I could cry
I don’t know why, can’t let it lie.

Oh misery, coming down all over me
Oh, can’t you see, you’re the one that I need?..

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About Lyrics and Oh Misery by Don Williams

The lyrics for Oh Misery are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1974 song by Don Williams. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Oh Misery 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 Oh Misery - Don Williams 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 Oh Misery by Don Williams 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 Oh Misery" means the words set to the music of Oh Misery, 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 Oh Misery and the lyrics to Oh Misery 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 Oh Misery, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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