Lyrics to
Anyway You Want

This version of Anyway You Want was released by Chicago in 1974.

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Anyway you want me
It’s alright with me
Anything you want
It’s alright with me
Know that I love you
Know that I need you
Anyway you want
It’s alright with me
Baby let me love you
Do what I want to do
Anyway you want
It’s alright with me
Feels so good
Know that I love you
Know that I need you
Anyway you want
It’s alright with me
Anyway you want
It’s alright with me
Anyway you want
It’s alright with me
Anyway you want
It’s alright with me
Anyway you want
Woah now
It’s alright it’s alright
Baby now
It’s alright it’s alright
Baby let me tell you
Yeah yeah
Yeah Yeah
It’s alright it’s alright it’s alright
It’s alright it’s alright it’s alright…

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Chicago has released many songs over the years besides Anyway You Want. 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 Anyway You Want by Chicago

When you decide to study the lyrics to Anyway You Want, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Chicago. Some of the lyrics to Anyway You Want have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Chicago and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Anyway You Want 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 Anyway You Want" means the words set to the music of Anyway You Want, 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 Anyway You Want and the lyrics to Anyway You Want 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 Anyway You Want, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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