Lyrics to
Take The Heat Off Me

This version of Take The Heat Off Me was released by Boney M in 1976.

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Take the heat off me
Please take the heat off me
Yes I’m burning
If you really lie and cheat
I don’t want to meet your kind of terms no more

So take the heat off me
Please take the heat off me
Yes I’m burning
Don’t believe you’re trying to make it
And I just can’t keep on taking it no more

Don’t mean to say you double-crossed me
But somehow I think that you’ve lost me
Maybe you weren’t even trying to see
Where I was or where I should be
And if you’re just faking
We’d better start breaking away tonight
So take this fire from my heart tonight

So take the heat off me
Please take the heat off me
Yes I’m burning
Don’t believe you’re trying to make it
And I just can’t keep on taking it no more

Take the heat off me
Please take the heat off me
Yes I’m burning
If you really lie and cheat
I don’t want to meet your kind of terms no more

Don’t mean to say you double-crossed me
But somehow I think that you’ve lost me
Maybe you weren’t even trying to see
Where I was or where I should be
And if you’re just faking
We’d better start breaking away tonight
So take this fire from my heart tonight

So Take the heat off me
Please take the heat off me
Take the heat off me
Please take the heat off me
Take the heat off me
Yes I’m burning
If you really lie and cheat
I don’t want to meet your kind of terms no more

So Take the heat off me
Please take the heat off me
Take the heat off me
Please take the heat off me
Take the heat off me
Yes I’m burning
If you really lie and cheat
I don’t want to meet your kind of terms no more

So Take the heat off me
Please take the heat off me
Take the heat off me
Please take the heat off me
Take the heat off me
Yes I’m burning
If you really lie and cheat
I don’t want to meet your kind of terms no more

So Take the heat off me
Please take the heat off me
Take the heat off me
Please take the heat off me
Take the heat off me
Yes I’m burning
If you really lie and cheat
I don’t want to meet your kind of terms no more

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The lyrics for Take The Heat Off Me are defined as the words making up the song released by Boney M in 1976. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Take The Heat Off Me have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Boney M and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Take The Heat Off Me by Boney M if you think through it. 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 Take The Heat Off Me" means the words set to the music of Take The Heat Off Me, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Boney M. 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 Take The Heat Off Me and the lyrics to Take The Heat Off Me are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Boney M who came here looking just for the lyrics to Take The Heat Off Me, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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