Lyrics to
Silly Thing

This version of Silly Thing was released by Sex Pistols in 1979.

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What you see, you can get
Nothing’s free, nothing’s said
Don’t be fooled by the signs
Don’t read in between the lines

What you’re gonna say
What you’re gonna do
Now you’ve missed out once again
But I thought you knew

Oh you silly thing
You’ve really gone and done it now
Oh you silly thing
You really gone and done it now

Trouble here, trouble there
People stop just to stare
What’s the use of wasting time
Just move on, leave ’em all behind

What you’re gonna say
What you’re gonna do
Now you’ve missed out once again
But I thought you knew

Oh you silly thing
You’ve really gone and done it now
Oh you silly thing
You’ve really gone and done it now

Can’t you ever depend
On someone you call a friend
When you see the naked eyes
You don’t even ask ’em why
You don’t even ask ’em why

Oh you silly thing
You’ve really gone and done it now
Oh you silly thing
You’ve really gone and done it now

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About Lyrics and Silly Thing by Sex Pistols

The lyrics for Silly Thing are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by Sex Pistols. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Silly Thing 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 Silly Thing - Sex Pistols 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 Silly Thing by Sex Pistols 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 Silly Thing" means the words set to the music of Silly Thing, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Sex Pistols. 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 Silly Thing and the lyrics to Silly Thing are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Sex Pistols who came here looking just for the lyrics to Silly Thing, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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