Lyrics to
Pieces Of Eight

This version of Pieces Of Eight was released by Styx in 1978.

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It’s six o’clock
Good morning sounds are everywhere
The warmth of spring, a gentle breeze blows through my hair

I hurry through my life never stopping to see
How beautiful it was meant to be

I’m just a prisoner in a king’s disguise
Broken dreams as we shuffle by

It’s six o’clock it’s quitting time I’m done for the day
Out on the streets I overheard a lady say
We now have everything or so people say
But now this emptiness haunts me every day
We seek the lion’s share never knowing why
Come alive spread your wings and fly

Pieces of eight
The search for the money tree
Don’t cash your freedoms in for gold
Pieces of eight
Can’t buy you everything
Don’t let it turn your heart to stone

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About Lyrics and Pieces Of Eight by Styx

When you decide to study the lyrics to Pieces Of Eight, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Styx. Some of the lyrics to Pieces Of Eight have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Styx and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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