Lyrics to
Serious

This version of Serious was released by Alice Cooper in 1978.

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When I look back at my time at the track
And I played and I played and I played and I was
Shooting the craps at the back of Fat Jack’s
Come on fade me Jake
I’m a Las Vegas dreamer they took to the cleaners
A bath what a bath what a bath I’d take
A fish on a hook I was rattled and shook ’cause I lost my stake
I took that serious

All of my life was a laugh and a joke
And a drink and a smoke
And then I passed out on the floor
Again and again and again and again and again

I’m a gambling fool with a roll and cue
Wanna play wanna play wanna play with me
Put my ass on the line rubbed my nose in the grime
And they picked me clean
The chance and the game drove Old Silkly insane
What a pain what a strain on my brain it was
A fish on a hook I was rattled and shook ’cause I lost my stake
I took that serious

All of my life was a laugh and a joke
And a drink and a smoke
And then I passed out on the floor
Again and again and again and again and again

Serious it was serious oh so serious
Serious it was serious oh so serious

All of my life was a laugh and a joke
And a drink and a smoke
And then I passed out on the floor
Or a friend
Again and again and again and again and again

All of my life was a laugh and a joke
And a drink and a smoke
And then I passed out on the floor
Or a friend

Again and again and again and again and again and again
And again and again and again and again and again
And again and again

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About Lyrics and Serious by Alice Cooper

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

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

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