Lyrics to
Second Hand Store

This version of Second Hand Store was released by Joe Walsh in 1978.

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You lost your color when you painted the town
Paintin’ by the numbers
You headed for the lobby, but you never came down
Is it any wonder?
You wind up sittin’ in a second hand store
On display in a window
Wind up sittin’ in the bottom of a drawer
Any way the wind blows

So you burned your bridges and headed downstream
Never know until you try
Spent your fortune on a river boat queen
Then the river ran dry
You end up sittin’ on a sand bar
Down to a handful of treasures
‘Nother shot of gold won’t get you very far
When you got forever

Any way the wind blows
Any way the wind blows
Any way the wind …..

So you keep on following directions until
Pretty soon you’re past it
Guess you shoulda known better, and still
It was fun while it lasted
You end up sittin’ in a second hand store
On display in a window
Wind up sittin’ in the bottom of a drawer

Any way the wind blows
Any way the wind blows
Any way the wind blows
Any way the wind blows

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About Lyrics and Second Hand Store by Joe Walsh

The lyrics to Second Hand Store are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Joe Walsh used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to Second Hand Store have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Joe Walsh 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 Second Hand Store by Joe Walsh. 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 Second Hand Store" means the words set to the music of Second Hand Store, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Joe Walsh. 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 Second Hand Store and the lyrics to Second Hand Store are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Joe Walsh who came here looking just for the lyrics to Second Hand Store, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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