Lyrics to
The Girls Want To Be With The Girls

This version of The Girls Want To Be With The Girls was released by Talking Heads in 1978.

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The girls don’t want to play like that,
They just want to talk to the boys.
The just want to do what is in their hearts,
And the girls want to be with the girls.

And the boys say, “What do you mean?”
And the boys say, “What do you mean?”
Well there is just no love,
When there’s boys and girls.
And the girls want to be with the girls,
And the girls want to be with the girls.

Girls want things that make common sense,
The best for all concerned.
They don’t want to have to go out of their way,
And the girls want to be with the girls.

And the boys say, “What do you mean?”
And the boys say, “What do you mean?”
Well there is just no love,
When there’s boys and girls.
And the girls want to be with the girls,
And the girls want to be with the girls.

Girls are getting into abstract analysis,
They want to make intuitive leap.
They are making plans that have far reaching effects.
And the girls want to be with the girls.

And the boys say, “What do you mean?”
And the boys say, “What do you mean?”
Well there is just no love,
When there’s boys and girls.
And the girls want to be with the girls.
And the girls want to be with the girls.

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About Lyrics and The Girls Want To Be With The Girls by Talking Heads

The lyrics for The Girls Want To Be With The Girls are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1978 song by Talking Heads. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to The Girls Want To Be With The Girls 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 Girls Want To Be With The Girls - Talking Heads 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 Girls Want To Be With The Girls by Talking Heads 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 Girls Want To Be With The Girls" means the words set to the music of The Girls Want To Be With The Girls, 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 The Girls Want To Be With The Girls and the lyrics to The Girls Want To Be With The Girls 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 The Girls Want To Be With The Girls, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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