Lyrics to
Passing Time

Released by Bad Company in 1977
From the Album: Burnin' Sky |

This version of Passing Time was released by Bad Company in 1977.

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Well I finished fooling around with you pretty mama
Finished fooling around with you

No more wasting my time no more standing in line
And im a shiftin on back to where I once came from

You know I heard it in the news and it gave me the blues
You know I ain’t right people are fighting every place I look
People uptight and everywhere
And I’m shifin on back to where I once came from

Ain’t no lie ain’t it too bad mama

Too bad you’re gonna cry

You know I heard it in the news and it gave me the blues
You know I ain’t right people are fighting every place I look
People uptight and everywhere
And I’m shifin on back to where I once came from

Ain’t no lie ain’t it too bad mama

Too bad you’re gonna cry


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About Lyrics and Passing Time by Bad Company

The lyrics for Passing Time are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by Bad Company. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Passing Time 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 Passing Time - Bad Company and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

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If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Passing Time by Bad Company 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 Passing Time" means the words set to the music of Passing Time, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bad Company. 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 Passing Time and the lyrics to Passing Time are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bad Company who came here looking just for the lyrics to Passing Time, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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