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Sweet Revenge

Released by Motorhead in 1979
From the Album: Bomber |

This version of Sweet Revenge was released by Motorhead in 1979.

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Hello victims!

I can almost taste it,
It’s the need to see you die,
You thought you had it made,
Well here’s your final shock surprise,
How do you like it,
My unfaithful friend?
How do you like it?
How do you like my Sweet Revenge?

Turn the key in the door,
No one close to hear you scream,
You’ll never imagine the pain,
Even in you’re foulest dreams,
How do you like that
Invitation friend?
How do you like that?
That’s what I call my Sweet Revenge

So sweet to see you,
Writhe and crawl and scream for life,
But I can’t listen now,
I’m too busy with the knife,
I don’t hear you laughing,
My dismembered friend,
I don’t hear you laughing,
You don’t like my Sweet Revenge


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Motorhead has released many songs over the years besides Sweet Revenge. Motorhead released songs from 1977 to 2004 spanning across albums like Motorhead, Overkill, Bomber, Ace Of Spades, Iron Fist, Another Perfect Day, No Remorse, Orgasmatron, Rock 'n' Roll, 1916, March Or Die, Bastards, Sacrifice, Overnight Sensation, Snake Bite Love, We Are Motorhead, Hammered, and Inferno. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Motorhead.

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The lyrics to Sweet Revenge are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Motorhead in 1979. Elements of the lyrics to Sweet Revenge are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Motorhead and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Sweet Revenge back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Sweet Revenge by Motorhead in a number of 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 Revenge" means the words set to the music of Sweet Revenge, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Motorhead. 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 Revenge and the lyrics to Sweet Revenge are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Motorhead who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sweet Revenge, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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