Lyrics to
The Wall

This version of The Wall was released by Jackson 5 in 1971.

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You hold me close to you my baby
But somehow it doesn’t feel the same
You built the wall so high between us
And you tell me that you haven’t changed

Tear down the wall that I can feel between us
The hidden wall that hides the real love
Tear it on down, tear the wall down
Tell me my love has got the strength to take it
Tell me what’s wrong we’ll make it
Tear it on down, yeah tear the wall down

I thought I really knew you baby
Almost the way I know myself
But now you’re actin’ like a stranger
And you changed girl into somebody else

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About Lyrics and The Wall by Jackson 5

When you decide to study the lyrics to The Wall, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Jackson 5. Some of the lyrics to The Wall have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Jackson 5 and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to The Wall 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 Wall" means the words set to the music of The Wall, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jackson 5. 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 Wall and the lyrics to The Wall are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jackson 5 who came here looking just for the lyrics to The Wall, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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