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The Girl Who Used To Be

This version of The Girl Who Used To Be was released by Hall & Oates in 1977.

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She’s The Girl Who Used To Be
In the town that can’t remember
Just a face you use to see
In a show one past September
Another child star who didn’t get far
as she hoped to
She’s got re-runs for memories….
She don’t want sympathy
Or pity from me
She wants the chance to do it over
Just to prove that she can
There’s no sympathy
Or pity from me
Just the chance to do it over
To prove that she can
She reads the want ads and haunts the bars
What she finds is next to nothing
She can push but just so far
And she’s tired of being that someone
At the end of the line
She wants her day in the sun forever
Not much different from you and me….
She’s The Girl Who Used To Be
In the town that can’t remember

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The lyrics for The Girl Who Used To Be are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by Hall & Oates. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to The Girl Who Used To Be have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for The Girl Who Used To Be - Hall & Oates and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to The Girl Who Used To Be by Hall & Oates in multiple 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 The Girl Who Used To Be" means the words set to the music of The Girl Who Used To Be, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Hall & Oates. 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 The Girl Who Used To Be and the lyrics to The Girl Who Used To Be are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Hall & Oates who came here looking just for the lyrics to The Girl Who Used To Be, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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