Lyrics to
You Don’t Live Forever

This version of You Don’T Live Forever was released by The Marshall Tucker Band in 1976.

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I had a lover
prettiest thing I ever seen
Just like all good things
There was a day she went away
Had the best mother that a man could have
And my family understands
When I see Daddy, my Daddy
I say to myself
He’s a hell of a man
So I’m sittin’ here
Thinkin’ about
How we used to be together
And it’s a lonesome road
Even I
Tell you that you don’t live forever
No you don’t live forever
Listen to me baby
What I’m tryin’ to say
I can’t understand it
When you treat me this way

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The lyrics for You Don’T Live Forever are defined as the words making up the song released by The Marshall Tucker Band in 1976. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to You Don’T Live Forever have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only The Marshall Tucker Band and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to You Don’T Live Forever by The Marshall Tucker Band if you think through it. 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 You Don’T Live Forever" means the words set to the music of You Don’T Live Forever, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Marshall Tucker Band. 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 You Don’T Live Forever and the lyrics to You Don’T Live Forever are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Marshall Tucker Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to You Don’T Live Forever, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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