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Rock And Roll Heart

This version of Rock And Roll Heart was released by Lou Reed in 1976.

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I don’t like opera and I don’t like ballet
And new wave french movies, they just drive me away
I guess I’m just dumb, ’cause I knows I ain’t smart
But deep down inside, I got a rock ‘n’ roll heart
Yeah-yeah-yeah, deep down inside I got a rock ‘n’ roll heart

Oh, rock ‘n’ roll heart
Lookin’ for a good time
Just a rock ‘n’ roll heart, roll heart, roll heart
Lookin’ for a good time

I don’t like massages or something meant to say
And I wish people like that would just go away
I guess I’m just dumb, ’cause I know I’m not smart
But deep down inside, I got a rock ‘n’ roll heart
Yeah-yeah-yeah, deep down inside I got a rock ‘n’ roll heart

Yeah, rock ‘n’ roll heart
Searchin’ for a good time

Just a rock ‘n’ roll heart, roll heart, roll heart
Lookin’ for a good time

Yeah, just a rock ‘n’ roll heart
Lookin’ for a good time
Just a rock ‘n’ roll heart, roll heart, yeah, roll heart
Lookin’ for a good time, yeah, now

Yeah, got a rock ‘n’ roll heart
Searchin’ for a good time
Got a rock ‘n’ roll heart
Searchin’ for a good time
Just a rock ‘n’ roll heart
Yeah, searchin’ for a good time
Yeah, got a rock ‘n’ roll heart
Yeah, now, now, searchin’ for a good time
Let me hear you, now
Oh, let me hear you, now

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The lyrics for Rock And Roll Heart are defined as the words making up the song released by Lou Reed in 1976. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Rock And Roll Heart have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Lou Reed and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Rock And Roll Heart by Lou Reed if you think through it. 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 Rock And Roll Heart" means the words set to the music of Rock And Roll Heart, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Lou Reed. 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 Rock And Roll Heart and the lyrics to Rock And Roll Heart are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Lou Reed who came here looking just for the lyrics to Rock And Roll Heart, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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