Lyrics to
Double Life

This version of Double Life was released by The Cars in 1979.

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it takes a fast car lady
to lead a double life
it takes a slow star lady
if you want to do it twice
you take your backseat rumble
take your frontseat wife
it takes a fast car lady
to lead a double life
it takes a light foot lady
to lead a double life
it takes a good book maybe
if you want to do it nice
when you idle at the stop light
you better get the signal right
light foot lady, you lead a double life
lift me from the wondermaze
alienation is the craze
and it’s all gonna happen to you
and you think it’s a phase
and it’s all gonna happen to you
when you drive in a haze
it takes a freeway lady
to lead a double life
it takes some leeway lady
if you want to do it twice
neon blinking on the street
everyone is bittersweet
freeway lady, you lead a double life

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About Lyrics and Double Life by The Cars

The lyrics for Double Life are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by The Cars. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Double Life have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Double Life - The Cars and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Double Life by The Cars in multiple 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 Double Life" means the words set to the music of Double Life, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Cars. 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 Double Life and the lyrics to Double Life are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Cars who came here looking just for the lyrics to Double Life, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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