Lyrics to
Wild Side Of Life

This version of Wild Side Of Life was released by Status Quo in 1976.

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Well you wouldn’t read my letters if I wrote you
You asked me not to call you on the phone
Well there’s something I’ve been waiting for to tell you
So I wrote it in the words of a song

Now the glamour of the gay night-life has lured you
To the places where the wine and liquor flow
Well you went to be somebody else’s baby
And forget the truest love you’ve ever known

I never knew there were honky-tonk angels
Oh I might have known you’d never make a wife
You gave up the only one who ever loved you
And went back to that wild side of life

Now the glamour of the gay night-life has lured you
To the places where the wine and liquor flow
Well you went to be somebody else’s baby
And forget the truest love you’ve ever known

I never knew there were honky-tonk angels
Oh I might have known you’d never make a wife
You gave up the only one who ever loved you
And went back to that wild side of life

I never knew there were honky-tonk angels
Oh I might have known you’d never make a wife
You gave up the only one who ever loved you
And went back to that wild side of life

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About Lyrics and Wild Side Of Life by Status Quo

When you decide to study the lyrics to Wild Side Of Life, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Status Quo. Some of the lyrics to Wild Side Of Life have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Status Quo and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Wild Side Of Life 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 Wild Side Of Life" means the words set to the music of Wild Side Of Life, 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 Wild Side Of Life and the lyrics to Wild Side Of Life 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 Wild Side Of Life, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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