Busy Being Fabulous – English Lyrics

• By: Eagles
• Album: Long Road out of Eden

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

I came home to an empty house

And I found your little note

"Don't wait up for me tonight"

And that was all she wrote

Do you think I don't know that you're out of the town

With all of your high-rollin' friends?

What do you do when you come up empty?

Where do you go when the party ends?

And you were just too busy being fabulous

Too busy to think about us

I don't know what you were dreaming of

Somehow you forgot about love

And you were just too busy being fabulous, uh-huh

A little time in the country

A day or two to slow down

A bottle of wine and a walk in the moonlight

Maybe some foolin' around

But you think time is just a magazine

And money's just a thrill

I've waited so long for you to change your way of livin'

But now I realize that you never will

'Cause you were just too busy being fabulous

Too busy to think about us

Lookin' for something you'll never find

You'll never know what you left behind

'Cause you were just too busy being fabulous, uh-huh

You tell a joke and everybody's laughin'

That's something you know how to do

You've always been the life of the party

But now, my baby, the joke is on you

'Cause you were just too busy being fabulous

Too busy to think about us

Running after something that never comes

What in the world are you runnin' from?

And you were just too busy being fabulous

Too busy to think about us

To drink the wine from your winner's cup

To notice the children were growin' up

And you were just too busy being fabulous

Too busy, too busy

...

Oh

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Too busy, hmm

Aw, baby

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
fabulous /ˈfæb.jʊ.ləs/ B2	adjective - extraordinarily good or admirable
busy /ˈbɪz.i/ B1	adjective - actively engaged in work or activity
love /lʌv/ A2	noun - a strong feeling of affection verb - to feel deep affection for someone
party /ˈpɑːr.ti/ A2	noun - social gathering for celebration
dreaming /ˈdriː.mɪŋ/ B2	verb - experience of putting images or fantasies in the mind during sleep or wakefulness
money /ˈmʌn.i/ A2	noun - medium of exchange in the form of coins and banknotes
change /tʃeɪndʒ/ B1	verb - to make or become different noun - coins as small currency
joke /dʒoʊk/ B1	noun - something said or done to provoke laughter verb - to say something humorous
drink /drɪŋk/ A2	verb - to swallow liquid noun - a liquid to be consumed
children /ˈtʃɪl.drən/ A2	noun - offspring of parents; young humans
grow /ɡroʊ/ B1	verb - to increase in size or maturity