Lyrics to
Something So Right

This version of Something So Right was released by Paul Simon in 1973.

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You’ve got the cool water
When the fever runs high
You’ve got the look of lovelight
in your eyes
And I was in crazy motion
Til you calmed me down
It took a little time
But you calmed me down

When something goes wrong
I’m the first to admit it
I’m the first to admit it
But the last one to know
when something goes right
Well it’s likely to lose me
It’s apt to confuse me
It’s such an unusual sight
I can’t get used to something so right
Something so right

They’ve got a wall in China
It’s a thousand miles long
To keep out the foreigners
They made it strong
I’ve got a wall around me
You can’t even see
It took a little time
To get to me

Chorus

Some people never say the words
I love you
It’s not their style
to be so bold
Some people never say those words
I love you
But like a child they’re longing
to be told

Chorus

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About Lyrics and Something So Right by Paul Simon

When you decide to study the lyrics to Something So Right, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Paul Simon. Some of the lyrics to Something So Right have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Paul Simon and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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