Lyrics to
World Keeps Going Around

This version of World Keeps Going Around was released by Bill Withers in 1973.

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Looking at the pictures of the places that he’s been
Old man told me what he found
Said it don’t make no difference whether you’re out or whether you’re in
You know the world keeps going around and around
Going around and around

Said he looked at the places, talk to the faces that he seen
Then he turned the pictures upside down
Said it don’t make no difference how many places that you’ve been
Said the world keeps going around and around
Going around and around

Then he put up the pictures shook his head and with a grin
He talked about his ups and downs
Said it don’t make no difference how many fixes you’ve been in
You know the world keeps going around and around
Going around and around

Betty Joe Johnson
Don’t you pull no Daisy Mae on me
Daisy Mae she did me dirty
So I had to leave her for Anna Lee
Anna Lee she had big street feet
She spends her nights out on the road
So I started seeing Sally Jackson
I had to let old Anna Lee go
Sally Jackson was a player
Had another man along with me
So I just took me one step backwards
Checked up on old Anna Lee
Anna Lee still had them street feet
Like to dance all night and sleep all day
So I just took one more step backwards
Checked up on old Daisy Mae
Daisy Mae is still doing dirty
So I tell you what I had to do
I had to go just one step further
Betty Joe Johnson
And that’s how I know you

Said he looked at the places, talk to the faces that he seen
Then he turned the pictures upside down
Said it don’t make no difference how many places that you’ve been
Said the world keeps going around and around
Going around and around

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About Lyrics and World Keeps Going Around by Bill Withers

The lyrics to World Keeps Going Around are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Bill Withers used when the song was created in 1973. The lyrics to World Keeps Going Around have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Bill Withers and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to World Keeps Going Around by Bill Withers. 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 World Keeps Going Around" means the words set to the music of World Keeps Going Around, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bill Withers. 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 World Keeps Going Around and the lyrics to World Keeps Going Around are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bill Withers who came here looking just for the lyrics to World Keeps Going Around, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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