Lyrics to
All Mod Cons

This version of All Mod Cons was released by The Jam in 1978.

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Seen you before, I know your sort,
You think the world awaits your every breath
You’ll be my friend, or so you say
You’ll help me out when the time comes

And all the time we’re getting rich,
You hang around to help me out

But when we’re skint, Oh God Forbid!
You drop us like hot bricks

Artistic Freedom. Do what you want.
But just make sure that the money ain’t gone

I’ll tell you what, I got you sussed
You’ll waste my time, when my time comes.

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About Lyrics and All Mod Cons by The Jam

When you decide to study the lyrics to All Mod Cons, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by The Jam. Some of the lyrics to All Mod Cons have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Jam and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to All Mod Cons 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 All Mod Cons" means the words set to the music of All Mod Cons, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Jam. 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 All Mod Cons and the lyrics to All Mod Cons are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Jam who came here looking just for the lyrics to All Mod Cons, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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