Lyrics to
Potter

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The name is Potter, hi there
I’m sure getting hotter, minder
I told her strict she could see my prickled cactus back in the confines of
my home
She didn’t say yes, but she didn’t say no, said just go get a cactus of her own

Nigger in the woodpile, ?mindout?
Trigger as a docile, find out
Roll up, roll up, come and see my ?fingermass singermass? songs like you
never seen before
Roll out, old town, to the place in town it’s a case of a pound and a race
to the bedroom-door

Roll up, roll up, come and see my ?fingermass singermass? songs like you
never seen before
Roll out, old town, to the place in town it’s a case of a pound and a race
to the bedroom-door

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Supertramp has released many songs over the years besides Potter. Supertramp released songs from 1970 to 2002 spanning across albums like Supertramp, Indelibly Stamped, Crime Of The Century, Crisis? What Crisis?, Even In The Quietest Moments..., Breakfast In America, ...Famous Last Words..., Brother Where You Bound, Free As A Bird, Some Things Never Change, and Slow Motion. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Supertramp.

About Lyrics and Potter by Supertramp

When you decide to study the lyrics to Potter, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Supertramp. Some of the lyrics to Potter have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Supertramp and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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