Lyrics to
Rosalyn

This version of Rosalyn was released by David Bowie in 1973.

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Hey Rosalyn, tell me where you’ve been
Hey Rosalyn, tell me where you’ve been
All the night and all the day
Hide and seek’s the game you play
Treat me as sure as sin

Oh Rosalyn, yeah Rosalyn

Hey Rosalyn, you’re the girl for me
Hey Rosalyn, you’re the girl for me
When I’m holding you so tight
It’s so hard to say goodnight
It’s you that I love now can’t you see?

Do you really love me, do you love me true
Do you really love me Rosalyn?
Yeah gotta know, yeah gotta know
Yeah gotta know Rosalyn

Yeah gotta know, yeah gotta know
Yeah gotta know Rosalyn
Rosalyn
Yeah Rosalyn, Rosalyn, Rosalyn, Rosalyn, ooh-yeah, ah

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About Lyrics and Rosalyn by David Bowie

The lyrics for Rosalyn are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1973 song by David Bowie. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Rosalyn have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Rosalyn - David Bowie and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Rosalyn by David Bowie in multiple ways. 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 Rosalyn" means the words set to the music of Rosalyn, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by David Bowie. 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 Rosalyn and the lyrics to Rosalyn are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of David Bowie who came here looking just for the lyrics to Rosalyn, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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