Lyrics to
Ruby Lee

This version of Ruby Lee was released by Bill Withers in 1974.

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Staring at shadows on the wall
Wish I knew of someone I could call
Someone who might understand it all
Ruby Lee, I show wish you was here with me.

Someone’s lying with me in my bed
Some stranger who don’t understand my head
Wish it was you lying here instead
Ruby Lee, I show wish you was here with me.

Drowning in a sea of pretty faces
Being quite the man about the town
Packing up and going different places
But I show miss having you around.

I listen to the noises down the hall
Think I’ll move out of here in the fall
I ain’t exactly having me a ball
Ruby Lee, I show wish you was here with me.

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About Lyrics and Ruby Lee by Bill Withers

The lyrics for Ruby Lee are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1974 song by Bill Withers. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Ruby Lee 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 Ruby Lee - Bill Withers 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 Ruby Lee by Bill Withers 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 Ruby Lee" means the words set to the music of Ruby Lee, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bill Withers. 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 Ruby Lee and the lyrics to Ruby Lee are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bill Withers who came here looking just for the lyrics to Ruby Lee, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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