Lyrics to
Sign Language

This version of Sign Language was released by Eric Clapton in 1976.

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You speak to me in sign language,
As I’m eating a sandwich in a small cafe
At a quarter to three.

But I can’t respond to your sign language.
You’re taking advantage, bringing me down.
Can’t you make any sound?

‘Twas there by the bakery, surrounded by fakery.
This is my story, still I’m still there.
Does she know I still care?

Link Wray was playing on a jukebox, I was paying
For the words I was saying, so misunderstood.
He didn’t do me no good.

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The lyrics to Sign Language are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Eric Clapton used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to Sign Language have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Eric Clapton and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Sign Language by Eric Clapton. 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 Sign Language" means the words set to the music of Sign Language, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Eric Clapton. 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 Sign Language and the lyrics to Sign Language are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Eric Clapton who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sign Language, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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