Lyrics to
The Match Game

This version of The Match Game was released by Otis Redding in 1970.

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Come on honey let’s play the match game
You strike me and I’ll be the flame
Girl you start the biggest fire
When you touch me I’m like a likewire
You burn a tattoo on my arms
I can’t feel the fire
But your kisses is warm

And it’s the match game
Now, now I’ll tell you it’s the match game
Huh, come on

Honey the match game is really in
Strike me the light a cigarette
Your love keeps me burning up
Give me so much I can’t get enough
My burns can burn down a building
But my kind of fire
Gives you that lovely good feeling

It’s the match game
Baby, I’ll tell you it’s my match game

Hard is my momma’s turn to free
Oh, your just ties me up in the sea
Don’t you know I like it momma
Really do, love it, huh, come on

Come on honey let’s play the match game
You strike me and I’ll be the flame
Girl you start the biggest fire
When you touch me I’m like a likewire
You burn a tattoo on my arms
I don’t feel the fire
But your kisses is warm

Now it’s the
Light me up, come on and light me up
Can’t get enough
Now, I tell you, it’s the match game
Strike me baby, strike, strike me momma
Lord it’s the match game
Come on and, come on honey
baby cake…

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About Lyrics and The Match Game by Otis Redding

When you decide to study the lyrics to The Match Game, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by Otis Redding. Some of the lyrics to The Match Game have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Otis Redding and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to The Match Game if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Match Game" means the words set to the music of The Match Game, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Otis Redding. 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 Match Game and the lyrics to The Match Game are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Otis Redding who came here looking just for the lyrics to The Match Game, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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