Lyrics to
While I Play

This version of While I Play was released by Bee Gees in 1973.

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I cry tears of emotion to spread across the USA
Ain’t no sunshine cowboy in your pockets
I’ll make my own way , while I play

Baby you forgot your living
Someone covered up your eyes
In my way at least I’m giving what I love
Am I wise

There’s gonna be some confusion
And there’s gonna be a day
You’ll raise your eyes and you’ll look to the skies
And you’ll pray , while I play

I am my father’s son or that is what I heard
Maybe I got it wrong
I didn’t mean a word
You got my face and I’ll play your ace
Pretend I haven’t heard

There’s gonna be some confusion
And there’s gonna be a day
You’ll raise your eyes and you’ll look to the skies
And you’ll pray , while I play

I am a minstreal , that is all I want to be
I’ll play inside your soul
I’ll show you to yourself
Fill your head with wild emotions
A symphony in wealth

There’s gonna be some confusion
And there’s gonna be a day
You’ll raise your eyes and you’ll look to the skies
And you’ll pray , while I play

I will take my leave , I gotta move ontime
I played inside your soul , made you sing along
I will return to find out if the melody was wrong

There’s gonna be some confusion
And there’s gonna be a day
You’ll raise your eyes and you’ll look to the skies
And you’ll pray , while I play

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About Lyrics and While I Play by Bee Gees

When you decide to study the lyrics to While I Play, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Bee Gees. Some of the lyrics to While I Play have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Bee Gees and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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