Lyrics to
Ain’t It Time

This version of Ain’T It Time was released by Chicago in 1978.

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Oh what a lucky day
Things are going my way
Sun is arising mesmerizing everything I say
People all around this uptight town
Someone’s gonna recognize me
Ain’t it time
Dues I’ve been paying for so long only making me stronger
Lady luck won’t you please come to me I can’t wait any longer
I spend all my time writing notes and rhyme
Tryin’ to find new dimensions
Ain’t it time
Time for movin’ on
Time enough to grow
Time enough to find myself
Everything’s okay
What a lucky day
Time enough to play my guitar
Competition everywhere is getting all of us down
I’ve been makin’ all the rounds I feel like a train on the wrong track
Don’t get lost ’cause you might get caught going out
The wrong door now
Ain’t it time
Time for movin’ on
Time enough to grow
Time enough to find myself
Everything’s okay
What a lucky day
Time enough to play my guitar

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Chicago has released many songs over the years besides Ain’T It Time. Chicago released songs from 1969 to 2006 spanning across albums like The Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago (Chicago II), Chicago III, Chicago V, Chicago VI, Chicago VII, Chicago VIII, Chicago X, Chicago XI, Hot Streets, Chicago 13, Chicago XIV, Chicago 16, Chicago 17, Chicago 18, Chicago 19, Twenty 1, Night & Day: Big Band, Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album, and Chicago XXX. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Chicago.

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About Lyrics and Ain’T It Time by Chicago

The lyrics to Ain’T It Time are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Chicago used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to Ain’T It Time have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Chicago 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 Ain’T It Time by Chicago. 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 Ain’T It Time" means the words set to the music of Ain’T It Time, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Chicago. 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 Ain’T It Time and the lyrics to Ain’T It Time are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Chicago who came here looking just for the lyrics to Ain’T It Time, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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