Lyrics to
Reds In My Bed

This version of Reds In My Bed was released by 10Cc in 1978.

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There’s a fat man who offers a change of scene
Says he’ll guarantee my sheet will be clean
When I get on the outside
But who can you trust when the walls have ears
I’m for takin’ a chance, like a drownin’ man
I’m going under

I’ve got reds in my bed
I’m not easily led to the slaughter
And while the cold war exists
I’ll stay warm with the commisar’s daughter

We could meet at the zoo where the tiger roams
In a prison of steel
He reminds me so much of the way I feel
And we know that we’re both in the danger zone
Where the eyes of the world
Full of shutters and bugs are upon us now

I’ve got reds in my bed
I get blues looking out of my window
And we’re never alone, there’s a tap on the phone
And my pillow

Let me go home
(There’s a girl in a distant land)
Let me go home
(Who’s nothing more than a memory)
She don’t know that I’m gonna be free
Let me go home
(You’re a land full of misery)
Let me go home
(You’re a cruel and a faceless race)
I don’t like your philosophy
I don’t like your philosophy

The connections are made and the time is right
So my body is walled in the shell of a car
in the dead of night
And I laugh through the pain and the agony
As they cut me away to be born again
back to humanity

You’ve got reds in your bed
There’s a man lookin’ over your shoulder
But don’t you give him your mind
It’s too late when you find that it’s over
You!

Let me go home
(You’re a land full of misery)
Let me go home
(You’re nothing more than a memory)
I don’t like your philosophy
Let me go home
(You’re a cruel and a faceless race)
Let me go home
(You’re nothing more than a memory)
I don’t like your philosophy

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About Lyrics and Reds In My Bed by 10Cc

When you decide to study the lyrics to Reds In My Bed, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by 10Cc. Some of the lyrics to Reds In My Bed have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only 10Cc and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Reds In My Bed 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 Reds In My Bed" means the words set to the music of Reds In My Bed, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by 10Cc. 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 Reds In My Bed and the lyrics to Reds In My Bed are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of 10Cc who came here looking just for the lyrics to Reds In My Bed, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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