Lyrics to
Who Asked You

This version of Who Asked You was released by Status Quo in 1979.

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There you go again
Telling me the same mistakes I made
There you go again
Telling me the way I should have played
Your silver tongue can talk away
And tell me all I should have done
But you allways be the same
’til the very last time has come

Seventeen years
And it ain’t no worth giving a try you said
But I wouldn’t be living
If any year was never spent
So when I see you up in arms
I wonder where your time has gone
Are you throwing it away
’til the every last time has come

Who asked you
To prey on my feelings
Lying low in every cloud
Who asked you
I’ve never been the one
To give you any kind of reason
Who asked you

Who asked you
When I was still learning
To come along and put me down
Who asked you
I made it anyway
While every cloud was slowly turning
Who asked you
Who asked you

There you go again
Telling me the same mistakes I made
There you go again
Telling me the way I should have played
There never was a better way
Than living like the way I’ve done
Oh, and living is the game
’til the very last time has come
But you’ll always be the same
’til the very last time has come
You’re throwing it away
’til the very last time has come

Who asked you

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About Lyrics and Who Asked You by Status Quo

The lyrics to Who Asked You are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Status Quo in 1979. Elements of the lyrics to Who Asked You are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Status Quo and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Who Asked You back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Who Asked You by Status Quo in a number of ways. 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 Who Asked You" means the words set to the music of Who Asked You, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Status Quo. 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 Who Asked You and the lyrics to Who Asked You are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Status Quo who came here looking just for the lyrics to Who Asked You, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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