Lyrics to
Thank You For Sending Me An Angel

This version of Thank You For Sending Me An Angel was released by Talking Heads in 1978.

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Oh, Oh, baby you can walk, you can talk just like me.
You can walk, you can talk just like me.
You can look, tell me what you see.
You can look, you won’t see nothing like me
if you look around the world.

Oh, baby you can walk, you can talk just like me.
With a little practive, you can walk like, talk just like me.
If that’s what you wanna do.
Well, you can look, you’ll walk in circles around me.
But first, I’ll walk in circles ’round you.
But first, I’ll walk around the world.

I’m walking ’round the world
I … you can.
But first, show me what you do.

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About Lyrics and Thank You For Sending Me An Angel by Talking Heads

The lyrics to Thank You For Sending Me An Angel are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Talking Heads used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to Thank You For Sending Me An Angel have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Talking Heads 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 Thank You For Sending Me An Angel by Talking Heads. 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 Thank You For Sending Me An Angel" means the words set to the music of Thank You For Sending Me An Angel, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Talking Heads. 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 Thank You For Sending Me An Angel and the lyrics to Thank You For Sending Me An Angel are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Talking Heads who came here looking just for the lyrics to Thank You For Sending Me An Angel, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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