Lyrics to
Sweet And Shiny Eyes

This version of Sweet And Shiny Eyes was released by Bonnie Raitt in 1975.

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Your sweet and shiny eyes
Are like the stars above laredo
Like meat and potatoes
To me

In my sweet dreams we are
In a bar
And it’s my birthday
Drinking salty marguaritas with fernando

Young and wild
We drove 900 miles of texas highway
To the mexican border
As the day was comin’ on

We crossed the rio grande river
And we swore we’d have things our way
When we happened to walk in to nuevo leon

Your sweet and shiny eyes
Are like the stars above laredo
Like meat and potatoes
To me

In my sweet dreams we are
In a bar
And it’s my birthday
And we’re having our picture taken
With fernando

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About Lyrics and Sweet And Shiny Eyes by Bonnie Raitt

The lyrics for Sweet And Shiny Eyes are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1975 song by Bonnie Raitt. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Sweet And Shiny Eyes 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 Sweet And Shiny Eyes - Bonnie Raitt 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 Sweet And Shiny Eyes by Bonnie Raitt 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 Sweet And Shiny Eyes" means the words set to the music of Sweet And Shiny Eyes, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bonnie Raitt. 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 Sweet And Shiny Eyes and the lyrics to Sweet And Shiny Eyes are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bonnie Raitt who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sweet And Shiny Eyes, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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