Lyrics to
Five Foot One

This version of Five Foot One was released by Iggy Pop in 1979.

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Yeah, I like it
Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!

I’m only five foot one
I got a pain in my neck
I’m looking up in the city
What the hell what the heck

I stare at the concrete
The girders eye high
The steel’s above me
There’s love in my eyes

And I’m doing the things
A five foot one man can do

I’m only five foot one
I got a pain in my heart
All the night I’m working
In the amusement park

With a bottle of aspirin
A sack full of jokes
I wish I could go home
With all the big folks

And I wish life could be
Swedish magazines
I wish life could be
Swedish magazines
I wish life could be
Anything
Ugh! Aie! Aie! Aie!
Ugh!

I’m only five foot one
Unless the time has come
I won’t grow anymore
Anymore, anymore, anymore

‘Till I’m losing my head
I’m checkin’ it twice
I’m gonna find out who’s naughty and nice

And I’m doing the things a five foot one man can do

I wish life could be Swedish magazines
I wish life could be
Yeah, I wish life could be
Oooooooooohhh
I wish life could be

I wish life could be Swedish magazines
I wish life could be Swedish magazines
I wish life could be

I won’t grow anymore
Anymore, anymore, anymore, anymore, anymore

I’m only five foot one
I’m five foot one

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About Lyrics and Five Foot One by Iggy Pop

The lyrics for Five Foot One are defined as the words making up the song released by Iggy Pop in 1979. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Five Foot One have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Iggy Pop and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Five Foot One by Iggy Pop if you think through it. 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 Five Foot One" means the words set to the music of Five Foot One, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Iggy Pop. 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 Five Foot One and the lyrics to Five Foot One are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Iggy Pop who came here looking just for the lyrics to Five Foot One, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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