Lyrics to
Sheer Heart Attack

This version of Sheer Heart Attack was released by Queen in 1977.

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Well you’re just 17 and all you wanna do is disappear
You know what I mean there’s a lot of space between your ears
The way that you touch don’t feel nothin’
Hey hey hey hey, it was the DNA
Hey hey hey hey, that made me this way
Do you know, do you know, do you know, just how I feel
Do you know, do you know, do you know, just how I feel

Sheer heart attack
Sheer heart attack
Real cardiac

I feel so in-articulate

Gotta feelin’, gotta feelin’, gotta feelin’, like I’m paralysed
It ain’t no, it ain’t no, it ain’t no, it ain’t no surprise
Turn on the TV let it drip right down in your eyes
Hey hey hey hey, it was the DNA
Hey hey hey hey, that made me this way
Do you know, do you know, do you know, just how I feel
Do you know, do you know, do you know, just how I feel

Sheer heart attack
Sheer heart attack
Real cardiac

I feel so in-articulate
Do you know, do you know, do you know just how I feel
Do you know, do you know, do you know just how I feel

Do you know, do you know, do you know just how I feel
Do you know, do you know, do you know, do you know just how I feel

Sheer heart attack
Sheer heart attack
Real cardiac

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About Lyrics and Sheer Heart Attack by Queen

The lyrics for Sheer Heart Attack are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by Queen. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Sheer Heart Attack have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Sheer Heart Attack - Queen and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Sheer Heart Attack by Queen in multiple ways. 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 Sheer Heart Attack" means the words set to the music of Sheer Heart Attack, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Queen. 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 Sheer Heart Attack and the lyrics to Sheer Heart Attack are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Queen who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sheer Heart Attack, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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