Lyrics to
Do Your Best

This version of Do Your Best was released by Reo Speedwagon in 1974.

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Don’t you know you better watch this man,
Better look him in the eye
See if he returns your look or if he
Tries to stay a little shy
Maybe soon you’ll get involved again
Better best beware
You may expose this man for what he is,
And prove he just doesn’t care
And I believe in the things that I said
And the prosecution rests
But if you’re gonna try and defend this man
I said you better do your doggone best

He’s been consistent for quite a few years
Said he always acts the same
Check the record of the things that he’s done
And you’ll know the nature of his game

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About Lyrics and Do Your Best by Reo Speedwagon

When you decide to study the lyrics to Do Your Best, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Reo Speedwagon. Some of the lyrics to Do Your Best have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Reo Speedwagon and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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