Lyrics to
Down The Road

Released by Kansas in 1975
From the Album: Song For America |

This version of Down The Road was released by Kansas in 1975.

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I’m in a kind of foolish game, I try to get rich quick,
But I’m going insane,
The kind of freaks that hang out on 42nd Street
They’re all pimpin’ Judys and poppin’ speed, well
It’s a game of cat and mouse, and I think it’s got my soul,
I think it’s time for thinkin’ ’bout a time to roll on
Down the road

Here comes Big Mike, I kinda owe him some beans,
He must be crazy, I guess that’s why he’s so mean,
If I tell him I’m leavin’, he would sure enough split my gut,
Cause he knows I sold to a sucker, and I owe Big Mike a cut,
But I’ll slip him a 20-dollar bill till I get out of town,
When I hit those white lines, I’m gonna be gone like a
Greyhound down the road


Kansas has released many songs over the years besides Down The Road. Kansas released songs from 1974 to 2000 spanning across albums like Kansas, Masque, Song For America, Leftoverture, Point Of Know Return, Monolith, Audio-Visions, Vinyl Confessions, Drastic Measures, Power, In The Spirit Of Things, Freaks Of Nature, Always Never The Same, and Somewhere To Elsewhere. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Kansas.

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The lyrics to Down The Road are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Kansas in 1975. Elements of the lyrics to Down The Road are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Kansas and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Down The Road back when it was created.

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

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