Lyrics to
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress

This version of The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress was released by Joe Cocker in 1974.

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See her as she flies
Golden sails across the skies
Close enough to touch
But careful if you try
Though she looks as warm as gold
The moon’s a harsh mistress
The moon can be so cold

Once the sun did shine
And Lord it felt so fine
The moon a phantom rose
Through the mountains and the pine
And then the darkness fell
The moon’s a harsh mistress
It’s hard to love her well

I fell out of her eyes
I fell out of her heart
I fell down on my face, yes I did
And I tripped and I missed my star
And I fell and fell alone
The moon’s a harsh mistress
The sky is made of stone

The moon’s a harsh mistress
She’s hard to call your own

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The lyrics for The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1974 song by Joe Cocker. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress 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 Moon Is A Harsh Mistress - Joe Cocker 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 Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Joe Cocker 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 Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" means the words set to the music of The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Joe Cocker. 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 Moon Is A Harsh Mistress and the lyrics to The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Joe Cocker who came here looking just for the lyrics to The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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