Lyrics to
Window Shopping

This version of Window Shopping was released by Jackson 5 in 1976.

Our About Jackson 5 page at Decade Lyrics includes the lyrics for Window Shopping from 1976 as well as all of the other lyrics from Jackson 5 that we have in our lyrics database.

Here's more interesting things in songs and lyrics tied to Jackson 5 or about the 1970s in general.

I was window shopping, window shopping
Never meant to buy
Just touch and try
You saw me, control me
I was window shopping, window shopping
Never meant to buy
Just touch and try

I thought I had my game up tight
But with you I couldn’t play tI right
I pretended to be ice cold
But inside my temperature rose, oh yeah

Hoo
I tried and I tried but I can’t resist

To think that I once boasted around
No ones arms could ever tie me down
But you’ve changed my point of view
And now I’m trying to tie a knot onto you, oh baby

Hoo
I was selling to the buyer until I met you

You’re priceless merchandise
Precious merchandise
You saw me, control me

---

Want more lyrics and songs by Jackson 5?

Jackson 5 has released many songs over the years besides Window Shopping. Jackson 5 released songs from 1969 to 1979 spanning across albums like Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5, ABC, Third Album, Christmas Album, Maybe Tomorrow, Goin' Back To Indiana, Lookin' Through The Windows, In Japan, Skywriter, G.I.T.: Get It Together, Dancing Machine, Moving Violation, Joyful Jukebox Music, and Boogie. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Jackson 5.

If you're a fan of the music of the 1970s looking for more songs from 1976 or the 1970s overall, you've come to the right place!

About Lyrics and Window Shopping by Jackson 5

When you decide to study the lyrics to Window Shopping, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Jackson 5. Some of the lyrics to Window Shopping have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Jackson 5 and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Window Shopping 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 Window Shopping" means the words set to the music of Window Shopping, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jackson 5. 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 Window Shopping and the lyrics to Window Shopping are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jackson 5 who came here looking just for the lyrics to Window Shopping, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

More Songs & Lyrics by Jackson 5

Visit our Jackson 5 profile for more Jackson 5 songs, lyrics & info!

)