Lyrics to
Burnin’ Up

This version of Burnin’ Up was released by Judas Priest in 1978.

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You stitch me up good, and you cut me down
So I string you up to keep you hanging around
You dish the hot stuff up but you keep me waiting
So I’ll play it dirty ’til your body is breaking

We’ve got to make love, the time is right
We’ve got to make love tonight
‘Cause we’re burnin’ up

You make me greedy, you won’t feed me my food
But I’ll make out easy, ’cause I see straight through you
You cool me off and hot me up and that’s not right
‘Cause you’ll get hungry in the heat of the night

And then we’ll make love, just when it’s right
And when we make love tonight
We’ll be burnin’ up

I know you feel the same
I know you feel the flame
Staring deep inside of you
Burnin’ you up, breaking ya down
Breakin’ you out in a cold sweat
And as you lose control, of your very soul
Your desire takes over
You’ll feel the heat sway
You’re round to my way
And suddenly you’ll know that you’re burnin’ up

You stitch me up good, and you cut me down
So I string you up to keep you hanging around
You dish the hot stuff up but you keep me waiting
So I’ll play it dirty ’til your body is breaking

We’ve got to make love, the time is right
We’ve got to make love tonight
‘Cause we’re burnin’ up
We’re burnin’ up

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About Lyrics and Burnin’ Up by Judas Priest

The lyrics to Burnin’ Up are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Judas Priest used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to Burnin’ Up have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Judas Priest 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 Burnin’ Up by Judas Priest. 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 Burnin’ Up" means the words set to the music of Burnin’ Up, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Judas Priest. 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 Burnin’ Up and the lyrics to Burnin’ Up are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Judas Priest who came here looking just for the lyrics to Burnin’ Up, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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