Lyrics to
You Oughta Be Home With Me

This version of You Oughta Be Home With Me was released by Barry Manilow in 1976.

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Everybody’s here spinin the bottle
Everybody dance,dance,dance
And you walk in with your new friend
Well my friend, have I lost again

Cause I know pretty baby
You oughta be home with me
Yes I know pretty women
You oughta be home with me
Well you can love the one you’re with
But you can love the one you oughta be with
And tonight pretty baby
You oughta be home with me

You been looking at me tryin to hide it
You smile so sweet
As you dance bye with you new friend
Can’t you see its killing me

Cause I know pretty baby
You oughta be home with me
Yes I know pretty women
You oughta be home with me
Well you can love the one your with
But you could love the one you oughta be with
And tonight pretty baby
You oughta be home with me
You oughta be home with me

Yes I know pretty baby
You oughta be home with me
Yes I know pretty baby
You oughta be home with me
Yes I know pretty women
You oughta be home with me
Yes I know pretty women
You oughta be home with me
Yes I know pretty baby
You oughta be home with me
Yea I know pretty baby
You oughta be home with me
Yes I know pretty women

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About Lyrics and You Oughta Be Home With Me by Barry Manilow

The lyrics to You Oughta Be Home With Me are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Barry Manilow used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to You Oughta Be Home With Me have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Barry Manilow 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 You Oughta Be Home With Me by Barry Manilow. 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 Oughta Be Home With Me" means the words set to the music of You Oughta Be Home With Me, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Barry Manilow. 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 Oughta Be Home With Me and the lyrics to You Oughta Be Home With Me are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Barry Manilow who came here looking just for the lyrics to You Oughta Be Home With Me, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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