Lyrics to
Back To The Coast

This version of Back To The Coast was released by Quiet Riot in 1977.

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West coast, try outs
You’ve got to make it before you die out
New York is the hard way
Time to pack it up and get to L.A.

If you want to be a star get back to the coast
Back to the coast
You’re gonna make it real far so get back to the coast
Back to the coast

My way is the sky way
Ain’t got no time for the highway
I’ve got to get to the coast, fast as I can
Get to L.A. we’ll be the number one band

If you want to be a star get back to the coast
Back to the coast
You’re gonna make it real far so get back to the coast
Back to the coast (come on)

You’ve got to get on back (get back)

If you want to be a star get back to the coast
Back to the coast
You’re gonna make it real far so get back to the coast
Back to the coast

I say back back back back back, back to the coast
Oooo, yeah get back back back back back, back to the coast
Whoa yeah

If you want to be a star get back to the coast
Back to the coast
You’re gonna make it real far so get back to the coast
Back to the coast (oh, get on back), back to the coast

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About Lyrics and Back To The Coast by Quiet Riot

The lyrics to Back To The Coast are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Quiet Riot used when the song was created in 1977. The lyrics to Back To The Coast have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Quiet Riot 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 Back To The Coast by Quiet Riot. 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 To The Coast" means the words set to the music of Back To The Coast, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Quiet Riot. 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 To The Coast and the lyrics to Back To The Coast are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Quiet Riot who came here looking just for the lyrics to Back To The Coast, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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