Lyrics to
Do What You Do

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

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Do what you do what you do … to me
The stars are out and so am I
The stars I see ain’t in the sky
I’m heading for the twilight zone
Please don’t take me home

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Xtc has released many songs over the years besides Do What You Do. 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 Do What You Do by Xtc

The lyrics to Do What You Do are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Xtc in 1978. Elements of the lyrics to Do What You Do are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Xtc and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Do What You Do back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Do What You Do by Xtc 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 Do What You Do" means the words set to the music of Do What You Do, 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 Do What You Do and the lyrics to Do What You Do 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 Do What You Do, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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