Lyrics to
Who Said The World Was Fair

This version of Who Said The World Was Fair was released by Hall & Oates in 1979.

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If there’s enough to go around why can’t I get mine
If everybody knows they’ve been lied to
If everybody knows it, then why are they waiting
On a gas line
I think it must be a test to weed the best from the rest
But whatever they are doing is driving us
Out of our minds
Driving us out of our minds
But we always take it ’cause

Who said the world was fair
or that we should care
What a way of thinking

The sun is free enough
It’s shining there, shining there out of our reach
But if they can, they’ll find a way
To make us pay for what we get
When we lay out on the beach

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

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