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Say It’s Alright Joe

This version of Say It’S Alright Joe was released by Genesis in 1978.

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Say it’s alright Joe,
I need another drink
To blow on the glass so I know I’m alive

Play me a song Joe
To fill the hours till morning
Then never again will I bother you
Ooh, Build myself a tower
No way in no way out.
Then my friends can visit me
Once in a while.

Say it’s alright Joe,
I need some reassurance
You never know what you might find in the night.
Ooh I’m just a busy bee, still alive in my hive,
I’m looking for some other world
To dream out my dreams.

There were Kings who were laughing in the rain
And they told me I’d come here to lead the parade
All the colours were changing, The sky was in ruins
The lights are all shining on me and on you
Oh, Shine on…

Say it’s alright Joe
The night will soon be over
And nothing and no one will ever know.
Open my eyes Joe
I’d like to see the daylight
The clock on the wall says it’s time to leave.
Never seen the same face twice
Never walked the same way
The little love that I have known
I keep to myself.

If there’s a fire it’s asleep in my bed
I must leave it to burn till it burns itself out
Catch as you can I’m not staying here long
I’ll be coming back early or never at all
Shine on…

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Say It’S Alright Joe, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Genesis. Some of the lyrics to Say It’S Alright Joe have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Genesis and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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