Lyrics to
Tell Me A Story

Released by Iggy Pop in 1979
From the Album: New Values |

This version of Tell Me A Story was released by Iggy Pop in 1979.

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What must I do to take a holiday
Show me a bill that they can make me pay
Tell me a story
And maybe I’ll believe it

Me I’m just a lucky guy
Young and free
Too hard to cry

Lorna from my school she’s 21
She’s good looking and a married girl so
Tell me a story
Tell me stories
And man I ain’t complaining

Me I’m just a lucky guy
Young and hard
Too tough to cry

Standing in a show
The lights ain’t low
They’re shining down on me
And I like, I like it
Just like I like I like it
I’m taking like I find it

What did they do to chill the joy away
What did they do to say you had to pay
And pay
And pay
Tell me stories
You know I never can believe them
Never ever

Me I’m just a lucky guy
I’m young and free
Too dumb to cry

What must I do to take a holiday
Show me a bill that they can make me pay
Tell me a story
And maybe I’ll believe it

Me I’m just a lucky guy
I’m Young and free
Too hard to cry


Iggy Pop has released many songs over the years besides Tell Me A Story. Iggy Pop released songs from 1976 to 2003 spanning across albums like The Idiot, Lust For Life, New Values, Soldier, Party, Zombie Birdhouse, Blah-Blah-Blah, Instinct, Brick By Brick, American Caesar, Naughty Little Doggie, Avenue B, Beat 'Em Up, and Skull Ring. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Iggy Pop.

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About Lyrics and Tell Me A Story by Iggy Pop

The lyrics to Tell Me A Story are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Iggy Pop used when the song was created in 1979. The lyrics to Tell Me A Story 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.

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

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