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Yassassin (Turkish For Long Live)

This version of Yassassin (Turkish For Long Live) was released by David Bowie in 1979.

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Yassassin – I’m not a moody guy
Yassassin – I walk without a sound
Yassassin –
Just a working man, no judge of men
Yassassin –
But such a life I’ve never known

We came from the farmlands
To live in this city
We walked proud and lustful
In this resonant world
You want to fight
But I don’t want to leave
Or drift away

Look at this – no second glances
Look at this – no value of love
Look at this – just sun and steel
Look at this – then look at us

If there’s someone in charge
Then listen to me
Don’t say nothing’s wrong
‘Cause I’ve got a love
And she’s afeared
You want to fight
But I don’t want to leave
Or drift away

Yassassin, Yassassin, Yassassin

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The lyrics for Yassassin (Turkish For Long Live) are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by David Bowie. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Yassassin (Turkish For Long Live) have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Yassassin (Turkish For Long Live) - David Bowie and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Yassassin (Turkish For Long Live) by David Bowie in multiple ways. 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 Yassassin (Turkish For Long Live)" means the words set to the music of Yassassin (Turkish For Long Live), or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by David Bowie. 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 Yassassin (Turkish For Long Live) and the lyrics to Yassassin (Turkish For Long Live) are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of David Bowie who came here looking just for the lyrics to Yassassin (Turkish For Long Live), but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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