Lyrics to
Vicious

This version of Vicious was released by Lou Reed in 1972.

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Vicious, you hit me with a flower
You do it every hour
Oh, baby you’re so vicious
Vicious, you want me to hit you with a stick
But all I’ve got is a guitar pick
Oh baby, you’re so vicious

When I watch you come, baby, I just want to run far away
You’re not the kind of person around I want to stay
When I see you walking down the street
I step on your hands and I mangle your feet
You’re not the kind of person that I want to meet
Baby, oh you’re so vicious, you’re so vicious

Vicious, you hit me with a flower
You do it every hour
Oh, baby you’re so vicious
Vicious, hey why don’t you swallow razor blades
You must think that I’m some kind of gay blade
But baby, you’re so vicious

When I see you coming I just have to run
You’re not good and you certainly aren’t very much fun
When I see you walking down the street
I step on your hand and I mangle your feet
You’re not the kind of person that I’d even want to meet
‘Cause you’re so vicious, baby, you’re so vicious
Vicious, vicious…

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Lou Reed has released many songs over the years besides Vicious. Lou Reed released songs from 1972 to 2000 spanning across albums like Transformer, Lou Reed, Berlin, Sally Can't Dance, Rock 'n' Roll Animal, Coney Island Baby, Rock And Roll Heart, Street Hassle, The Bells, Growing Up In Public, The Blue Mask, Legendary Hearts, New Sensations, Mistrial, New York, Magic And Loss, Set The Twilight Reeling, and Ecstasy. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Lou Reed.

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

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