Lyrics to
Shot Me Down

This version of Shot Me Down was released by Nazareth in 1977.

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I was feelin’ good, kinda high and cruisin’
I was tryin’ to forget someone I had been losin’
Then you came along, surprise, surprise
You shot me down
I was lyin’ crashed out on the ground
You shot me down

I was feelin’ fine, mellowed out and easy
I was comin’ back down kinda slow and lazy
Then you came along and fired the flame
You shot me down
I was lyin’ burned out on the ground
You shot me down, you shot me down
You shot me down

I was feelin’ good, kinda high and cruisin’
I was tryin’ to forget someone I had been losin’
Then you came along, surprise, surprise
You shot me down
I was lyin’ crashed out on the ground
You shot me down, you shot me down
You shot me down.

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Nazareth has released many songs over the years besides Shot Me Down. Nazareth released songs from 1971 to 1998 spanning across albums like Nazareth, Excercises, Razamanaz, Loud 'N' Proud, Rampant, Hair Of The Dog, Play 'N' The Game, Close Enough For Rock 'N' Roll, Expect No Mercy, No Mean City, Malice In Wonderland, The Fool Circle, 2XS, Sound Elixir, The Catch, Cinema, Snakes 'N' Ladders, No Jive, From The Vaults, Move Me, and Boogaloo. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Nazareth.

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The lyrics for Shot Me Down are defined as the words making up the song released by Nazareth in 1977. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Shot Me Down have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Nazareth and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Shot Me Down by Nazareth if you think through it. 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 Shot Me Down" means the words set to the music of Shot Me Down, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Nazareth. 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 Shot Me Down and the lyrics to Shot Me Down are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Nazareth who came here looking just for the lyrics to Shot Me Down, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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