Lyrics to
Too Many People

This version of Too Many People was released by Paul Mccartney in 1971.

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Too many people going underground,
Too many reaching for a piece of cake.
Too many people pulled and pushed around,
Too many waiting for that lucky break.

That was your first mistake,
You took your lucky break and broke it in two.
Now what can be done for you?
You broke it in two.

Too many people sharing party lines,
Too many people ever sleeping late.
Too many people paying parking fines,
Too many hundred people losing weight.

That was your first mistake,
You took your lucky break and broke it in two.
Now what can be done for you?
You broke it in two.

Mm-mm-uh-uh.

Uh!

Too many people preaching practices,
Don’t let ’em tell you what you wanna be.
Too many people holding back,
This is crazy, and baby, it’s not like me.

That was your last mistake,
I find my love awake and waiting to be.
Now what can be done for you?
She’s waiting for me

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About Lyrics and Too Many People by Paul Mccartney

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

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

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