Lyrics to
Someone Told A Lie

This version of Someone Told A Lie was released by Steppenwolf in 1975.

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Someone told me about your…
Somebody gossiped about my…
But nobody warned us about those…
Someone told a lie
Now we don’t trust each other’s faces
And I don’t know what to think about you
‘Cause we can’t stand in each other’s places
And I can’t trade with you

We’ve had times together where the sparks would fly
But in stormy weather we stood side by side
Now we’re cold and distant
Watching love roll by
Just when truth was needed
Someone told a lie

Some folks say I’m a sinner
Some people claim I’m a saint
But nobody knows who’s the winner
The truth was told too late
Now I was raised to believe that you’re different
And I was told not to play with your kind
Does anyone know why
They were so hell bent on poisoning our minds?

Now we’re cold and distant
Watching love go by
Just when truth was needed
Someone told a lie
But I’ll do what I have to
You do what you can
Just to keep on searching for the pride of man

All those tears we wasted wondering why
All those years were wasted fighting lies
But I’ll do what I have to
You’ll do what you can
Just to keep on searching for the pride of man

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About Lyrics and Someone Told A Lie by Steppenwolf

The lyrics to Someone Told A Lie are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Steppenwolf in 1975. Elements of the lyrics to Someone Told A Lie are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Steppenwolf and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Someone Told A Lie back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Someone Told A Lie by Steppenwolf in a number of 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 Someone Told A Lie" means the words set to the music of Someone Told A Lie, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Steppenwolf. 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 Someone Told A Lie and the lyrics to Someone Told A Lie are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Steppenwolf who came here looking just for the lyrics to Someone Told A Lie, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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