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Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues

This version of Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues was released by Whitesnake in 1979.

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I love the blues,
They tell my story,
If you don’t feel it you can never understand
So many times I thought about it
And now I know just what it means to be a man

Everyday I realize you can see it in my eyes
I never wait, or hesitate.
‘Cos I love the life I live,
I’m gonna live the life I choose,
You gotta understand
I’m walking in the shadow of the blues

All of my life I’ve had a strange reputation,
I’ve been the black sheep of the family all along
I never know if in my heart I’m really guilty
But, I’ve been accused of never knowing right from wrong

Everyday I realize you can see it in my eyes
I never wait, or hesitate.
‘Cos I love the life I live,
I’m gonna live the life I choose,
You gotta understand
I’m walking in the shadow of the blues

My father said you’re crazy,
He said what you gonna do?
I left with my guitar and said
I’ll leave it up to you

I’m gonna live the life I love
And live the life I choose,
And I’m walking in the shadow of the blues

I love the blues,
They tell my story,
If you don’t feel it I will tell you once again
All of my life I’ve been caught up in a crossfire,
‘Cos I’ve been branded with the devil mark of cain

Everyday I realize you can see it in my eyes
I never wait, or hesitate.
‘Cos I love the life I live,
I’m gonna live the life I choose,
You gotta understand
I’m walking in the shadow of the blues,
I’m walking in the shadow of the blues

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Whitesnake. Some of the lyrics to Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Whitesnake and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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