Lyrics to
Simply Shady

This version of Simply Shady was released by George Harrison in 1974.

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Somebody brought the juicer
I thought I’d take a sip
Came off the rails so crazy
My senses took a dip
Before the bottle hit the floor
And I’d had time to think
I was blinded by desire
The elephant turned pink

The rest is simply shady
It’s all been done before
But it doesn’t make life simple
That’s for sure
You may think about a lady
Cause yourself a minor war
And your life won’t be so easy anymore

No sooner had I sown it
When I began to reap
I was torn from shallow water
And plunged into the deep
And as I started drowning
I clung onto a straw
That somehow kept me floating
While my madness craved for more

The rest is simply shady
It’s all been done and more
But it doesn’t make life easy
That’s for sure

A pebble in the ocean
Must cause some kind of stir
And witnessed by the silence
Will reach from here to there
The action that I’ve started
Sometime I’ll have to face
My influence in motion
Rebounding back through space

The rest is simply shady
It’s all been done before
But it doesn’t make life simple
That’s for sure
You may think of Sexy Sadie
Let her in through your front door
And your life won’t be so easy anymore

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About Lyrics and Simply Shady by George Harrison

When you decide to study the lyrics to Simply Shady, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by George Harrison. Some of the lyrics to Simply Shady have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only George Harrison and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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