Lyrics to
Sweet Sixteen

This version of Sweet Sixteen was released by Iggy Pop in 1977.

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Sweet Sixteen in leather boots
Body and soul I go crazy
Baby, baby I’m hungry Sweet Sixteen

Funky bar all full of faces
Pretty faces, beautiful faces
Body and soul, body and soul, I give to you

I am an easy mark
With my broken heart Sweet Sixteen

Show you my explosion Sweet Sixteen

Go out to the funky bar
I get hurt- crying inside
‘Cause everybody’s so fine and
And they don’t need me

Tell me, what can I do, Sweet Sixteen?

I give you my body and soul Sweet Sixteen

I must be hungry
‘Cause I go crazy
Over your leather boots

Now baby, I know
That’s not normal
Well, I love you, I love you, I love you

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About Lyrics and Sweet Sixteen by Iggy Pop

The lyrics to Sweet Sixteen are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Iggy Pop used when the song was created in 1977. The lyrics to Sweet Sixteen have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Iggy Pop 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 Sixteen by Iggy Pop. 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 Sixteen" means the words set to the music of Sweet Sixteen, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Iggy Pop. 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 Sixteen and the lyrics to Sweet Sixteen are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Iggy Pop who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sweet Sixteen, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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