Lyrics to Stone Cold Crazy

This version of Stone Cold Crazy was released by Queen in 1974.

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Sleeping very soundly on a Saturday morning I was dreaming
I was Al Capone
There’s a rumour going round, gotta clear outta town
I’m smelling like a dry fish bone
Here come the Law, gonna break down the door, gonna carry me
away once more
Never, never, never get it any more
Gotta get away from this stone cold floor
Crazy
Stone cold crazy, you know

Rainy afternoon I gotta blow a typhoon and I’m playing on
my slide trombone
Anymore, anymore, cannot take it anymore

Gotta get away from this stone cold floor
Crazy
Stone cold crazy, you know

Walking down the street, shooting people that I meet with
my rubber tommy water gun
Here come the deputy, he’s gonna come and getta me
I gotta get me get up and run
They got the sirens loose
I ran outta juice
They’re gonna put me in a cell, if I can’t go to heaven
Will they let me go to hell
Crazy
Stone cold crazy, you know

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About Lyrics and Stone Cold Crazy by Queen

The lyrics to Stone Cold Crazy are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Queen used when the song was created in 1974. The lyrics to Stone Cold Crazy have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Queen and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

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If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Stone Cold Crazy by Queen. 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 Stone Cold Crazy" means the words set to the music of Stone Cold Crazy, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Queen. 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 Stone Cold Crazy and the lyrics to Stone Cold Crazy are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Queen who came here looking just for the lyrics to Stone Cold Crazy, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.