Lyrics to
When Will I Be Loved

This version of When Will I Be Loved was released by Linda Ronstadt in 1974.

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I’ve been made cheated, been mistreated
When will I be loved
I’ve been put down, I’ve been pushed

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When you decide to study the lyrics to When Will I Be Loved, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Linda Ronstadt. Some of the lyrics to When Will I Be Loved have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Linda Ronstadt and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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