Lyrics to
Sweet Lady

This version of Sweet Lady was released by Queen in 1975.

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You call me up and treat me like a dog
You call me up and tear me up inside
You’ve got me on a lead
You bring me down
You shout around
You don’t believe that I’m alone.

Sweet Lady
Sweet Lady
Sweet Lady…Stay sweet.

You say
“You call me up and feed me all the lines
“You call me sweet lime I’m some kind of cheese
“Waiting on the shelf
“You eat me up
“You hold me down
“I’m just a fool to make you a home

“And you say
“Sweet lady
“Sweet lady
“Sweet lady…Stay sweet.”

My Sweet lady
Though it seems like we wait forever
Stay sweet baby
Believe and we’ve got everything we need.

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About Lyrics and Sweet Lady by Queen

The lyrics to Sweet Lady are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Queen used when the song was created in 1975. The lyrics to Sweet Lady 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.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Sweet Lady 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 Sweet Lady" means the words set to the music of Sweet Lady, 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 Sweet Lady and the lyrics to Sweet Lady 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 Sweet Lady, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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