Lyrics to
Song For Guy

This version of Song For Guy was released by Elton John in 1978.

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Life
Life isn’t everything
Life isn’t everything
Life isn’t everything

Life
Life isn’t everything
Life isn’t everything
Life isn’t everything

Life
Life isn’t everything
Life isn’t everything
Life isn’t everything

Life…

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About Lyrics and Song For Guy by Elton John

The lyrics to Song For Guy are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Elton John used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to Song For Guy have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Elton John 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 Song For Guy by Elton John. 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 Song For Guy" means the words set to the music of Song For Guy, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Elton John. 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 Song For Guy and the lyrics to Song For Guy are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Elton John who came here looking just for the lyrics to Song For Guy, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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