Lyrics to
Surfing With A Spoon

This version of Surfing With A Spoon was released by Midnight Oil in 1978.

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Well you knew from the start
That a one way loving wouldn’t last
You think I’m moving slowly girl
I tell you, you’re moving way too fast

Working in the city from 9 to 5
Traffic on the highway gonna blow my mind
Surfing with a spoon all the rest of the time
Oh yeah, all the rest of time

You better find your way without me
‘Cause I’m heading for the coast in june
Don’t talk about me when I’m gone
You know I couldn’t leave too soon

Working…

I’m back in town, you’re still around
I guess I’ll have to stay away
I’m going up north where the weather’s fine
And I’m living it from day to day

Working…

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About Lyrics and Surfing With A Spoon by Midnight Oil

The lyrics for Surfing With A Spoon are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1978 song by Midnight Oil. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Surfing With A Spoon 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 Surfing With A Spoon - Midnight Oil 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 Surfing With A Spoon by Midnight Oil 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 Surfing With A Spoon" means the words set to the music of Surfing With A Spoon, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Midnight Oil. 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 Surfing With A Spoon and the lyrics to Surfing With A Spoon are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Midnight Oil who came here looking just for the lyrics to Surfing With A Spoon, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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