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When Will I Ever Learn

Released by Don Williams in 1974
From the Album: Don Williams, Vol. 3 |

This version of When Will I Ever Learn was released by Don Williams in 1974.

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You call me at five to five,
And you ask me if I’ll drop by
That you need me,
Tonight you’re all alone.
Like the fool I am and the fool I’ll be,
I drove there anxiously
But when I got there,
You were not alone.

When will I ever learn
That you’ll never care about me.
You only build me up
To bring me down again.
When will I ever learn
That you’ll use me and abuse me.
Oh, tell me, when will I ever learn.

When will I learn, when will I get wise,
You never, apologise.
I swear that this time I’m through with you.
But like the fool I am and the fool I’ll be
The next time you need me,
Once again I’ll give in to you.

When will I ever learn,
That you’ll never care about me
You only build me up
To bring me down again
When will I ever learn,
That you’ll use me and abuse me
Oh tell me, when will I ever learn…


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

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

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