Lyrics to
Shadow Song

This version of Shadow Song was released by Supertramp in 1970.

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Did your shadow ever speak to you?
And did he say that something’s wrong?
Huddle figure on a lamp-let wall
Never realized he cared at all
Did he stop you going on?

Guess my shadow spoke to me to night
And made me throw my dreams away
Told a story of a twisted man
Who is playing with some foolish plan
‘Bout a girl who haft away

Sometimes shadows are near
I see things very clear
My life unwires
Somewhere I make my stay
Blue ?ground and? yesterday
And change my mind

Now your shadow isn’t always there
In the light of cloudy day
Or in circles where you had ?from view?
All the doubts that ever bothered you
And where people loose your name

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About Lyrics and Shadow Song by Supertramp

When you decide to study the lyrics to Shadow Song, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by Supertramp. Some of the lyrics to Shadow Song have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Supertramp and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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