Lyrics to
Beatown

Our Decade Lyrics Xtc profile has all of the Beatown lyrics from 1978 and many more songs from the Xtc discography that we have on file.

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B E A T O W N
I spoke to your boss this morning
He asked why you weren’t home?
I said sir they left without warning
You won’t even get them on the telephone

They’re in, it’s a capital city and all roads lead to
Beatown, beatown

I spoke to your owner this lunchtime
He asked why you weren’t home?
I said they thought it was hunchtime
You won’t even see them standing on their own

Beatown, it’s a capital city and all roads lead to
Beatown, beatown

He says he wants his money back sir
He says you’re all communists sir
I said they beat you fair and square sir
They use the head, and not the fist

Beatown, beatown
B E A T O W N

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Xtc has released many songs over the years besides Beatown. Xtc released songs from 1978 to 1992 spanning across albums like White Music, Go 2, Drums And Wires, Black Sea, Mummer, The Big Express, Skylarking, Chips From The Chocolate Fireball, and Nonsuch. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Xtc.

About Lyrics and Beatown by Xtc

The lyrics for Beatown are defined as the words making up the song released by Xtc in 1978. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Beatown have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Xtc and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Beatown by Xtc if you think through it. 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 Beatown" means the words set to the music of Beatown, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Xtc. 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 Beatown and the lyrics to Beatown are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Xtc who came here looking just for the lyrics to Beatown, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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