Lyrics to
The Wild Side Of Life

This version of The Wild Side Of Life was released by Rod Stewart in 1976.

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You wouldn’t read my letters if I wrote them
You ask me not to call you on the phone
But there’s something I’ve been waiting for to tell you
So I wrote it in the words of this song

Chorus:
I didn’t know God made honky tonk angels
I might have known you’d never make a wife
You gave up the only one that ever loved you
And went on back to the wild side of life

The glamour of the gay nightlife has lured you
to the places where the wine and liquor flow
Where you wait to be somebody else’s baby
And forget the truest love you’ll ever know

(chorus)

The glamour of the gay nightlife has lured you
to the places where the wine and liquor flow
Where you wait to be somebody else’s baby
And forget the truest love you’ll ever know

(chorus)

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About Lyrics and The Wild Side Of Life by Rod Stewart

The lyrics to The Wild Side Of Life are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Rod Stewart used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to The Wild Side Of Life have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Rod Stewart and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to The Wild Side Of Life by Rod Stewart. 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 Wild Side Of Life" means the words set to the music of The Wild Side Of Life, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Rod Stewart. 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 Wild Side Of Life and the lyrics to The Wild Side Of Life are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Rod Stewart who came here looking just for the lyrics to The Wild Side Of Life, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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