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Back Street Kids

This version of Back Street Kids was released by Black Sabbath in 1976.

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I’m just another back street kid
Rock ‘n Roll music is the only thing I really dig
Can’t stop the music going round inside my head
I’m a rock ‘n roll soldier, gonna play it until I’m dead
Nobody I know is gonna take my rock ‘n roll away from me

Sitting in the back seat of a shiny limousine
Living in a taxi can’t remember where I’ve been
Playing my music, sitting in my hotel room
Writing about the stars and thinking about the hand of doom
Nobody I know is gonna take my rock ‘n roll away from me

Living life comes easy if you know which way you’re going
Got to see yourself in other’s eye’s, surprised?
Living like I want to don’t come easy, but I’m trying
Sorting out what’s true and what are lies, it’s wise

Brought up in a back street living with the salt of the land
Seems that now my music’s paying off my tax demands
So listen to the music, want to see you get so high
‘Cause I’m a back street rocker and I will be till the day I die
Nobody I know is gonna take my rock ‘n roll away from me

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Back Street Kids, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Black Sabbath. Some of the lyrics to Back Street Kids have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Black Sabbath and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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