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You Win Again

This version of You Win Again was released by Grateful Dead in 1972.

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The news is out, all over town that you’ve been seen, out runnin’ ’round.
I know that I should leave her there,
But then I just can’t go, you win again.
This heart of mine, could never see what everybody knows but me.
Just trustin’ you was my great sin, I just can’t go, Lord
You win again. What can I do, Lord, You win again.

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The lyrics to You Win Again are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Grateful Dead used when the song was created in 1972. The lyrics to You Win Again have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Grateful Dead 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 Win Again by Grateful Dead. 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 Win Again" means the words set to the music of You Win Again, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Grateful Dead. 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 Win Again and the lyrics to You Win Again are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Grateful Dead who came here looking just for the lyrics to You Win Again, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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