Lyrics to
Petals

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When my honey says she loves me so
Believe me, ya’ll, it’s far from status quo
A grain of salt I take with her heart
‘Cause after her next breath, that girl may love me not.
She tells my I’m so sweet
Sugar can’t compete
Then puts me on the shelf
Crying by myself.

Throwing petals, petals, tossing petals on the ground
Yesterday she picked me up just to throw me down
Those petals, petals, tell me what will it be today?
Will she walk into my arms or will she walk away?

She’ll wake up some day and see
You’re the only one she needs
Don’t give up, just stick around
You’ll be up instead of down.

She keeps telling me she wants me near
But half the time it’s far from crystal clear
Fickle-heart must be her middle name
‘Cause loving her is just a guessing game, oh
She calls up to say
Be there right away
Then leaves me sitting home
All alone and

Throwing all those petals, petals, tossing petals on the ground
Yesterday she picked me up just to throw me down
Those petals, petals, tell me what will it be today?
Will she walk into my arms or will she walk away?

She loves me (loves me, loves me)
And I feel like a king!
She loves me not (loves me not, she loves me not)
Huh! I’ve lost everything!

Petals, petals, tossing petals on the ground
Yesterday she picked me up just to thow me down
Yesterday I couldn’t lose (yesterday I couldn’t lose)
But today I sing the blues.

Oh! Petals, petals, petals, petals
Ooh, ooh! Petals, petals, petals, petals
Petals, petals, petals, petals
Petals, petals, petals, petals

Petals, petals, tossing petals on the ground
Yesterday she picked me up just to thow me down
Tell me, tell me, tell me, what will it be today?

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Jackson 5 has released many songs over the years besides Petals. Jackson 5 released songs from 1969 to 1979 spanning across albums like Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5, ABC, Third Album, Christmas Album, Maybe Tomorrow, Goin' Back To Indiana, Lookin' Through The Windows, In Japan, Skywriter, G.I.T.: Get It Together, Dancing Machine, Moving Violation, Joyful Jukebox Music, and Boogie. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Jackson 5.

About Lyrics and Petals by Jackson 5

The lyrics to Petals are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Jackson 5 used when the song was created in 1971. The lyrics to Petals have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Jackson 5 and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Petals by Jackson 5. 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 Petals" means the words set to the music of Petals, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jackson 5. 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 Petals and the lyrics to Petals are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jackson 5 who came here looking just for the lyrics to Petals, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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