Lyrics to
The Unhappy Ending (Lead Me On)

This version of The Unhappy Ending (Lead Me On) was released by Rick Springfield in 1972.

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Tears subsiding
Michael lifts
A gun up to his head
Sorry for the part he played
In making Maggie dead

As he pulls the trigger,
And he feels the hammer fall
His mind goes back a year ago
And he remembers us all
And how we loved him

Oh (lead me on)
Lord lead me on
Oh (lead me on)
Lord lead me on

She said she’d been with other men
But that was long ago
Long before she fell in love with him
He ought to know

He could not believe her
He told her to her face
And took on with another girl
Put Maggie in disgrace

Oh (lead me on)
Lord lead me on
Oh (lead me on)
Lord lead me on

But when they found they found her dying
He realized what he done
She died because he blamed her
For things she’d never done

A loud explosion rocks the air
And things go quite insane…
As the gun hurls out the shell
It crashes through his brain

Oh (lead me on)
Lord lead me on
Oh (lead me on)
Lord lead me on

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You can understand the lyrics to The Unhappy Ending (Lead Me On) 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 Unhappy Ending (Lead Me On)" means the words set to the music of The Unhappy Ending (Lead Me On), or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Rick Springfield. 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 Unhappy Ending (Lead Me On) and the lyrics to The Unhappy Ending (Lead Me On) are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Rick Springfield who came here looking just for the lyrics to The Unhappy Ending (Lead Me On), but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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