Lyrics to
Twentieth Century Fox

This version of Twentieth Century Fox was released by John Cougar Mellencamp in 1976.

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Well, she’s fashionably lean
Hey and she’s fashionably late
She’ll never gonna wreck a scene
She’ll never break a date
But now she’s no drag
Just watch the way that she walks

She’s a twentieth century fox
She’s a twentieth century fox
She’s got world, she’s got the world
All locked up inside a plastic box
She’s a twentieth century fox, oh yeah

She’s the queen of cool
And she’s the lady who waits
Sent to manless school
She never gonna hesitate
Well know she don’t waste her time
On all this elementary talk

She’s a twentieth century fox
She’s a twentieth century fox
She got the world, babe,
Now she got this world
She got it all locked up
Inside some kind of plastic plastic box
She’s a Twentieth century fox, oh yeah
She’s a Twentieth century fox, oh yeah
She’s a Twentieth century fox, oh yeah
She’s a Twentieth century fox

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About Lyrics and Twentieth Century Fox by John Cougar Mellencamp

The lyrics to Twentieth Century Fox are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that John Cougar Mellencamp used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to Twentieth Century Fox have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only John Cougar Mellencamp 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 Twentieth Century Fox by John Cougar Mellencamp. 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 Twentieth Century Fox" means the words set to the music of Twentieth Century Fox, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by John Cougar Mellencamp. 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 Twentieth Century Fox and the lyrics to Twentieth Century Fox are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of John Cougar Mellencamp who came here looking just for the lyrics to Twentieth Century Fox, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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