Lyrics to
Stone Cold Sober

This version of Stone Cold Sober was released by Rod Stewart in 1975.

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Never get to bed before sunup,
alway get caught in the rain;
sometimes I might get in trouble,
never was one to complain.
Now gentleman, you must agree
ain’t it worth it when you’re out on cloud thirty-three
to be stone cold sober again,
down in the alley again,
stone cold sober again.

Never found a dime in a gutter,
always get my best friends drunk.
If the pres’dent tries to call me,
say ” Rodney, come on over for lunch”;
I’d say, ” Gentlemen, exuse me please
but I’m busy with my buddies up on cloud thirty-three.”
Yeah, stone cold sober again,
down in the alley again,
stone cold sober again.

Sunday is a drag, so forget it,
Monday you can make up for that;
Tuesday, take a taste for dinner,
if you’re all right spend it in bed.
But on Thursday prepare for your weekend
and let Friday disappear into Saturday mornin’
when you’re stone cold sober again,
down in the alley again,
stone cold sober again.
stone cold sober again,
down in the alley again,
stone cold sober again.

I don’t mind stone cold sober again,
down in the alley again,
stone cold sober again.

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About Lyrics and Stone Cold Sober by Rod Stewart

The lyrics for Stone Cold Sober are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1975 song by Rod Stewart. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Stone Cold Sober have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Stone Cold Sober - Rod Stewart and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Stone Cold Sober by Rod Stewart in multiple 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 Stone Cold Sober" means the words set to the music of Stone Cold Sober, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Rod Stewart. 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 Sober and the lyrics to Stone Cold Sober are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Rod Stewart who came here looking just for the lyrics to Stone Cold Sober, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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