Lyrics to
Do Yourself A Favour

This version of Do Yourself A Favour was released by Stevie Wonder in 1971.

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Isolated junk yard
Letting out the garbage
Eating through the core of life

Sweet fragrance irritates
In a state room death awaits
Persecute your own self-pride

Suffocate the new high
Ride the thorny mule that cries
“Dig your grave and step right in”

Like a judas pay the price
30 pieces for a ride
Here’s the fire take a chew

Do yourself a favour
Educate your mind
Get yourself together
Hey there ain’t much time

Do yourself a favour
Educate your mind
Get yourself together
Hey there ain’t much time

Shredded know-how give away
Species of the human race
Those funky winds of ups and downs

Hall of grit is known too well
Heaven still is your hell
Poison slowly slowly drowns

Let the devil step right in
Lucifer’s your only friend
Ain’t a soul go’n pity you

Hurdly over time to death
With open arms it waits I bet
Don’t you wish you could reach ground?

Do yourself a favour
Educate your mind
Get yourself together
Hey there ain’t much time

Do yourself a favour
Educate your mind
Get yourself together
Hey there ain’t much time

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Do Yourself A Favour, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Stevie Wonder. Some of the lyrics to Do Yourself A Favour have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Stevie Wonder and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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