Lyrics to
Streetlife Serenader

This version of Streetlife Serenader was released by Billy Joel in 1974.

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Streetlife serenader
Never sang on stages
Needs no orchestration
Melody comes easy

Midnight masquerader
Shoppin’ center heroes
Child of Eisenhower
New world celebrator

Streetlife serenaders
Have such an understanding
How the words are spoken
How to make the motions

Streetlife serenaders
Have no obligations
Hold no grand illusions
Need no stimulation

Midnight masqueraders
Workin’ hard for wages
Need no vast arrangement
To do their harmonizing

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About Lyrics and Streetlife Serenader by Billy Joel

When you decide to study the lyrics to Streetlife Serenader, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Billy Joel. Some of the lyrics to Streetlife Serenader have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Billy Joel and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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