Lyrics to
Borrowed Time

This version of Borrowed Time was released by Styx in 1979.

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Yeah yeah!
Don’t look now, but here come the eightees!

I was so cool back in sixty-five
I had it made ’cause I understood what to do to survive
I had my car, and I made the scene
Didn’t give a damn about no gasoline
They can go to hell
My friend we never thought about the world
And its realities
The promised land was ours
We were the Great Society

I’m so confused by the things I read, I need the truth
But the truth is, I don’t know who to believe
The left say yes, and the right says no
I’m in between and the more I learn
Well, the less that I know
I got to make a show

Livin’ high, living fine
Livin’ high on borrowed time

Yes! No!
Yes! No!
No! Yes!
No! Yes!

Faith be with me now
I’m just a dreamer in a dreamland
Faith be with me now
I’m just a dreamer in a dreamland

‘Cause we’re
Livin’ high
Livin’ fine (You know I’m livin’ fine)
Livin’ high (Yes I’m livin’ high)
On borrowed time (On borrowed time)
Livin’ high (Whoohoo!)
Livin’ fine (Ahhh!)
Livin’ high
On Lake Shore Drive (Midnight ride)
Livin’ high (We’re livin’ high)
On Leslie Lane (Let’s go back and play it again!)
Livin’ high (We’re livin’ high)
On Red Bud Trail (On Red Bud, Red Bud Trail!)
Livin’ high
On Central Drive (He’s on Central Drive!)
Livin’ high (We’re livin’, livin’ high)
On Prestwick Drive (Catch me on Prestwick Drive!…)
Livin’ high (…gettin’ in and drivin’ my Mercedes…)
Livin’ fine (…up and down and up and down — sh*t! I don’t….)

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Styx has released many songs over the years besides Borrowed Time. Styx released songs from 1972 to 2005 spanning across albums like Styx, Styx II, The Serpent Is Rising, Man Of Miracles, Equinox, Crystal Ball, The Grand Illusion, Pieces Of Eight, Cornerstone, Paradise Theater, Kilroy Was Here, Caught In The Act, Edge Of The Century, Return To Paradise, Brave New World, and Big Bang Theory. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Styx.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Borrowed Time, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Styx. Some of the lyrics to Borrowed Time have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Styx and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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