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Face To Face

This version of Face To Face was released by Quiet Riot in 1978.

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Now I’ve got a chick who will be with me
Anytime, day or night
But I won’t put up with no runnin’ around
You know it just ain’t right
I’m going down…
To the town –
Out to go drink with the clowns
You stay at home…
All alone –
And don’t you talk on the phone

You’re comin’ face to face with the guy that’s gonna knock you dead
Face to face with the guy that’s gonna bust your head
I’m gonna knock you on the floor
You’ll beg me for no more
You’re comin’ face to face with me, like it or not

When I got to town
The words going ’round
That you’ve been seen on your back
I open the door and you were on the floor
Spreadin’ for the clowns in my pack
Now you were wrong…
If you thought –
I’d take it lyin’ down like a dog
I put a match…
In her snatch
She thinks she’s such a hot little vamp

You’re comin’ face to face with the guy that’s gonna knock you dead
Face to face with the guy that’s gonna bust your head
I’m gonna knock you on the floor
You’ll beg me for no more
You comn’ face to face with me, like it or not

Tear your face apart
Waste you in the dark
Rip you like a shark
Won’t think you’re so smart

Face to face (face to face) you disgrace
Face to face (face to face) you disgrace
Face to face (face to face) you disgrace
Face to face
Face to face

Face to face with the guy that’s gonna knock you dead
Your’re comin’ face to face with the guy that’s gonna bust your head
I’m gonna knock you on the floor
You’ll beg me for no more
You’re comin’ face to face with me, like it or not

You’re comin’ face to face makin’ humble pie out of your head
Face to face you’ll eat all the words that you said
I’ll knock you on the floor
You won’t get up anymore
You’re comin’ face to face with me, like it or not
And you won’t like it at all, look out!

I told you once before
I ain’t gonna tell you no more (no no)
Face to face with me, like it or not!

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Face To Face, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Quiet Riot. Some of the lyrics to Face To Face have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Quiet Riot and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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