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You’re Not The One (I Was Looking For)

This version of You’Re Not The One (I Was Looking For) was released by Blue Oyster Cult in 1979.

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I used to lie in my bed
Sleep wouldn’t come
Thinkin’ ’bout things that they said
They led me on
All of the fancy ladies
Oh they could talk and talk

I shot for the highest star
But I aimed too high
You wanted a rich rock star
But he made you cry
Now that we have each other
We can laugh about it

You’re not the one I was lookin’ for but
You’re the one for me (you’re the one)
I’m not the one you were lookin’ for but
You can’t go wrong with me
You’re not the one I was lookin’ for but
You’re oh so good for me

Now I can’t make it without
I can’t go on
We can make beautiful music
And prove them wrong
We’ve been put down by the best
And now we laugh about it, ya

You’re oh so good for me (You’re so good)

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You can understand the lyrics to You’Re Not The One (I Was Looking For) if you take apart the structure of the words. 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’Re Not The One (I Was Looking For)" means the words set to the music of You’Re Not The One (I Was Looking For), or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Blue Oyster Cult. 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’Re Not The One (I Was Looking For) and the lyrics to You’Re Not The One (I Was Looking For) are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Blue Oyster Cult who came here looking just for the lyrics to You’Re Not The One (I Was Looking For), but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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