Lyrics to
Rosie Had Everything Planned

This version of Rosie Had Everything Planned was released by Supertramp in 1971.

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Acting upon information received
Rosie had everything planned
Stood in a garden with a shotgun in hand
What a woman

Whilst entertaining the headlines next day
Rosie would not be released
If it was found that her man was deceased
Silly woman

Oh but Rosie, a girl with a strange kind of humor
Stupidly took it a roomer
Making her think that she’d lost
Double-crossed by a man who still

Stood in the garden and shaking her head
Rosie could not understand
Wiping her eyes with the back of her hand
Sad, sad woman

Oh but Rosie, how could a few words have made her
Certain that he had betrayed her
Making her think that she’d lost
Double-crossed by a man who still very near to her

Row upon row of angel-hair
Rosie had everything planned
Sure that the people would not understand
Sad, sad woman

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About Lyrics and Rosie Had Everything Planned by Supertramp

The lyrics to Rosie Had Everything Planned are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Supertramp used when the song was created in 1971. The lyrics to Rosie Had Everything Planned have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Supertramp 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 Rosie Had Everything Planned by Supertramp. 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 Rosie Had Everything Planned" means the words set to the music of Rosie Had Everything Planned, 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 Rosie Had Everything Planned and the lyrics to Rosie Had Everything Planned 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 Rosie Had Everything Planned, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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