Lyrics to
Outside World

This version of Outside World was released by Xtc in 1979.

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She has six swans singing in her sauna
So she can’t hear what’s going on
No she can’t hear what’s going on
In the outside world
In the outside world
In the outside
Bad black and white men
Standing in their pigpen
Selling guns to simpletons
To shoot ’em in the abdomen
And she’s not interested in that
And she’s not interested in that
She has six swans singing in her sauna
Outside – world – outside

She has eleven lions laughing at her lakeside
So she can’t hear what’s going on
No she can’t hear what’s going on
In the outside world
In the outside world
In the outside
Bad brown and yellow men
Splitting on their fellow men
Drape her in a newspaper
And stab her with a poison pen
She’s not interested in that
She’s not interested in that
She has eleven lions laughing at her lakeside
Outside – world – outside

You can keep your animals
All the noise and the din
Just make a little space for me
I’m coming in

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Outside World, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Xtc. Some of the lyrics to Outside World have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Xtc and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Outside World 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 Outside World" means the words set to the music of Outside World, 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 Outside World and the lyrics to Outside World 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 Outside World, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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