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This Song

This version of This Song was released by George Harrison in 1976.

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This song has nothing tricky about it
This song ain’t black or white and as far as I know
Don’t infringe on anyone’s copyright, so . . .

This song we’ll let be
This song is in E
This song is for you and . . .

This tune has nothing Bright about it
This tune ain’t bad or good and come ever what may
My expert tells me it’s okay

As this song came to me
Quite unknowingly
This song could be you could be . . .

This riff ain’t trying to win gold medals
This riff ain’t hip or square
Well done or rare
May end up one more weight to bear

But this song could well be
A reason to see – that
Without you there’s no point to . . . this song

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About Lyrics and This Song by George Harrison

The lyrics for This Song are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1976 song by George Harrison. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to This Song 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 This Song - George Harrison 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 This Song by George Harrison 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 This Song" means the words set to the music of This Song, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by George Harrison. 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 This Song and the lyrics to This Song are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of George Harrison who came here looking just for the lyrics to This Song, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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