Lyrics to
Sorrow

This version of Sorrow was released by David Bowie in 1973.

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With your long blonde hair
and your eyes of blue
The only thing I ever got from you
was sorrow
Sorrow
You acted funny trying
to spend my money

You’re out there playing your high class games of sorrow
Sorrow

You never do what you know you oughta
Something tells me
you’re a Devil’s daughter
Sorrow, sorrow
Ahhhh, ah, ahhhh

I tried to find her
‘Cause I can’t resist her
(I tried to find her)
I never knew just how much I missed her
Sorrow
Sorrow

With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue
The only thing I ever got from you was sorrow
Sorrow
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh

With your long blonde hair
I couldn’t sleep last night
With your long blonde hair

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

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

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