Lyrics to
Top Rank Suite

This version of Top Rank Suite was released by Moody Blues in 1978.

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Rain on the river
Turns the torrent to a flood
Swim or you’ll never rise above
Two lonely people
Can mend a broken heart
Love you’ll never fall apart

But can you tell me why?

They made a good bowl of chili at the jazz club
They played a good game of football in Mucron
They got everyone off at the Top Rank babe
If you could ever get into their suite
Avenue Tombola and Social
We just drove right on by
We were on our way to the big time babe
To the great gold record in the sky

Sun in the morning
Brings the flowers from a bud
Hail to the giver
Life and love

Two lonely people
Can mend a broken heart
Love you’ll never fall apart

But can you tell me why?

They made a good bowl of chili at the jazz club
They played a good game of football in Mucron
They got everyone off at the Top Rank babe
If you could ever get into their suite
Avenue Tombola and Social
We just drove right on by
We were on our way to the big time babe
To the great gold record in the sky

But can you tell me why?

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About Lyrics and Top Rank Suite by Moody Blues

The lyrics to Top Rank Suite are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Moody Blues used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to Top Rank Suite have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Moody Blues 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 Top Rank Suite by Moody Blues. 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 Top Rank Suite" means the words set to the music of Top Rank Suite, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Moody Blues. 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 Top Rank Suite and the lyrics to Top Rank Suite are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Moody Blues who came here looking just for the lyrics to Top Rank Suite, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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