Lyrics to
The Rumor

This version of The Rumor was released by The Band in 1970.

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Now when the rumor comes to your town
It grows, it grows, where it started no one knows
Some of your neighbors will invite it right in
Maybe it’s a lie, even if it’s a sin, they’ll repeat the rumor again

Close your eyes, hang down your head
Until a fog blows away, let it blow away
Open up your arms and feel the good
It’s a’comin’, a brand new day

Big men little men turn into dust
Maybe it was all in fun, didn’t mean to ruin no one
Could there be someone among this crowd
Who’s been accused had his name so misused and his privacy refused

Close your eyes, hang your head
Until a fog blows away, let it blow away
Open up your arms and feel the good
It’s a’comin’, a brand new day

Now all you vigilantes want to make a move
Maybe they won’t, you know I sure hope they don’t
For whether this rumor proves true or false
You can forgive, a’you can regret, but you can never ever forget

Close your eyes, hang down your head
Until a fog blows away
Open up your arms and feel the good
It’s a’comin’, a brand new day

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The lyrics for The Rumor are defined as the words making up the song released by The Band in 1970. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to The Rumor have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only The Band and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to The Rumor by The Band if you think through it. 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 Rumor" means the words set to the music of The Rumor, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Band. 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 Rumor and the lyrics to The Rumor are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to The Rumor, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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