Lyrics to
Showdown

This version of Showdown was released by Uriah Heep in 1975.

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It’s gonna happen before too long
It’s getting hard to tell who’s right and who’s wrong
I can see it coming so I gotta be strong

There’s gonna be a showdown
There’s gonna be changes in this town
We’re gonna see a showdown

A time’s gonna come in the future when
A whole lotta people gonna think again
We’re gonna keep right on till you break and then

There’s gonna be a showdown
There’s gonna be changes in this town
We’re gonna see a showdown

Do you want to be out of touch, only you can decide
For something different you’re out of luck
‘Cause on we will ride on, we’re gonna ride, ride on!
Oooh ride on! C’mon!

The music explodes like a gun in your hand
We’re gonna give you more than your head can stand
Then we’ll sit down and talk man to man

There’s gonna be a showdown
There’s gonna be changes in this town
We’re gonna see a showdown

There’s gonna be a showdown
There’s gonna be changes in this town
We’re gonna see a showdown

Showdown, showdown

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About Lyrics and Showdown by Uriah Heep

When you decide to study the lyrics to Showdown, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Uriah Heep. Some of the lyrics to Showdown have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Uriah Heep and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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