"Words" is a song by the Bee Gees, written by Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb.

Barry Gibb explains: 'Words' was written by me at Adams Row when I was staying at Robert [Stigwood]'s place, A lot of people began to cover that song, so over the years it's become a bit like 'To Love Somebody'.

Words was recorded on 3 October 1967, along with "World" and the unreleased track "Maccleby's Secret" at the IBC Studios in London.

[4] The song featured vocals from only Barry Gibb and became his solo spot in concert for the remainder of the Bee Gees' career.

I wanted him to write the piano part of the song and play it because I'm not much of a pianist, but he just couldn't keep his eyes open, so I ended up doing it myself".

[3]According to sound engineer Damon Lyon-Shaw: "I was the one that actually devised it, Mike Claydon was the one who took the credit for it, but i was actually piddling around at the time as his junior.

On the mixer at the time, we had compressors, Maurice was playing at piano at the time, just piddling around [and] I started feeding the piano into a series of these compressors and then screwed them up until he got his lovely metallic sort of sucking sound, and that was the birth of that sound, Maurice, assumed it was Michael, so he took the credits.

Some backing vocals near the end are heard only on the mono mix used on the single, some compilations, and the Studio Albums 1967–1968 box set.

As stated on the original single release, the song was featured in the film The Mini Mob (1968), where it was sung by Georgie Fame in an arrangement by Bill Shepherd.

Cashbox called it a "beautiful ballad line with a semi-soft, somewhat-rock sound obtained by the use of near classic piano, soaring strings and a pop percussion" and a "brilliant vocal lead".

Irish boyband Boyzone covered "Words" and released is as the lead single from their second studio album, A Different Beat (1996).

The reviewer wrote, "Just when everyone has readied themselves for Boyzone's ascent to mega-stardom, they go and release their worst single to date.

[65] In 1989, the group Tropical Panamá released a Spanish-language version (titled "Palabras") on their album Ana María.