Lyrics to
Satisfied Mind

This version of Satisfied Mind was released by Lucinda Williams in 1979.

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How many times
Have you heard someone say
If I had his money
I’d do things my way
How little they know
That it’s so hard to find
One rich man in a hundred
With a satisfied mind

Once I was living
In fortune and fame
And everthing I could dream of
To get a start in life’s game
And suddenly it happened
I lost every dime
But I’m richer by far
With a satisfied mind

No money can buy back
Your youth when your old
Or a friend when you’re lonely
Or a heart that’s grown cold
And the world’s richest man
Is a pauper at times
Compared to the man
With a satisfied mind

When my life is over
And my time has run out
My friends and my loved ones
I’ll leave there’s no doubt
But there’s one thing for certain
When it comes my time
I’ll leave this old world
With a satisfied mind
I’ll leave this old world
With a satisfied mind

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About Lyrics and Satisfied Mind by Lucinda Williams

When you decide to study the lyrics to Satisfied Mind, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Lucinda Williams. Some of the lyrics to Satisfied Mind have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Lucinda Williams and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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