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Words Don’t Fit The Picture

This version of Words Don’T Fit The Picture was released by Willie Nelson in 1972.

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If this is a game we play and if this is a roll I play
Where are the words I say to you
The words don’t fit the picture anymore
And if we’ve been acting all along and we both act right and we both act wrong
Where does it say that we should cry
It’s just the words don’t fit the picture anymore anymore
The words don’t fit the picture anymore no need to force the love scenes anymore
And a one act play comes to an end and we turn to leave we can both part friends
But this is the time to say goodbye goodbye
Cause the words don’t fit the picture anymore anymore

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Words Don’T Fit The Picture, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by Willie Nelson. Some of the lyrics to Words Don’T Fit The Picture have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Willie Nelson and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Words Don’T Fit The Picture 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 Words Don’T Fit The Picture" means the words set to the music of Words Don’T Fit The Picture, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Willie Nelson. 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 Words Don’T Fit The Picture and the lyrics to Words Don’T Fit The Picture are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Willie Nelson who came here looking just for the lyrics to Words Don’T Fit The Picture, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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