Lyrics to
City Kids

This version of City Kids was released by Motorhead in 1977.

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Nobody knows,
I know nobody cares what goes on in here,
We have this door,
Nobody gets in until I’m really sure,
Don’t creep up behind me,
You know where to find me I’m always around,
Turns out if you need us, before you lead us astray

Don’t care who we meet,
We’re orphans here on Easy Street and we feel real mean,
Cruising on speed,
We’ve got more than we’ll ever need, ain’t life sweet?
We won’t turn your pay down,
City Kids don’t lay down, we don’t call so,
Better get some more of that,
City Kids we don’t give that to you, oh no

Bombs go off at night,
Searing heat, blinding light, you like it fine,
Park the car and run,
Dance all night, it was for fun, we’re nasty, hahahaha!
Why do we do it,
No-one can get through it we know where to run,
You hear what we’re saying,
Time that you were praying ‘cos,
City Kids time, won’t be long,

Won’t be long, no it won’t be long!

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Motorhead has released many songs over the years besides City Kids. Motorhead released songs from 1977 to 2004 spanning across albums like Motorhead, Overkill, Bomber, Ace Of Spades, Iron Fist, Another Perfect Day, No Remorse, Orgasmatron, Rock 'n' Roll, 1916, March Or Die, Bastards, Sacrifice, Overnight Sensation, Snake Bite Love, We Are Motorhead, Hammered, and Inferno. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Motorhead.

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About Lyrics and City Kids by Motorhead

The lyrics to City Kids are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Motorhead in 1977. Elements of the lyrics to City Kids are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Motorhead and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for City Kids back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to City Kids by Motorhead in a number of ways. 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 City Kids" means the words set to the music of City Kids, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Motorhead. 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 City Kids and the lyrics to City Kids are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Motorhead who came here looking just for the lyrics to City Kids, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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