Lyrics to
Pray For Me

This version of Pray For Me was released by John Cougar Mellencamp in 1979.

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God gave Moses a few little rules
And he said I want you to pass them around
Take a look at those old tools
I can’t believe the shit that’s going down
You’re supposed to have a good time
But I think you take it a little too far
Watchin’ your life in vista-vision
A monkey on your back, a brand new car

Well Shakespeare threw down his pencil,
Said I think I’m gonna start layin’ brick
Too much of this Romeo stuff enough to make
Anybody sick
“To be or not to be,” I mean what’s that supposed to mean
I’m changin’ my image tomorrow
Be a groupie, make the scene

Pray for me if you want to
If you don’t want to don’t stay
Somebody shot the Vicar and the minister’s on his way
Sellin’ open legs on the corner
Punchin’ Judy workin’ uptown
Pray for me if you want to
Before some fool shoots you down

The man in the cage is always for freedom
The way of the transgressor is hard
Cain and Abel and their old man
Playin’ croquet in the back yard
Two guys beat up the sole survivor
Up beat on the back street
I don’t really want to get involved
Won’t someone help me to my feet.

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About Lyrics and Pray For Me by John Cougar Mellencamp

The lyrics to Pray For Me are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that John Cougar Mellencamp used when the song was created in 1979. The lyrics to Pray For Me have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only John Cougar Mellencamp 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 Pray For Me by John Cougar Mellencamp. 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 Pray For Me" means the words set to the music of Pray For Me, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by John Cougar Mellencamp. 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 Pray For Me and the lyrics to Pray For Me are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of John Cougar Mellencamp who came here looking just for the lyrics to Pray For Me, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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