Lyrics to
Get It Together

This version of Get It Together was released by Jackson 5 in 1973.

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You better get it together
Or leave it alone
If you don’t want my lovin’
I’ll be gone

Get up, get up, get up
Get up off your high horse, girl
Think what you’re doing, doin’
Get up off your high horse, girl
Think what you’re doin’, doin’

I’m spinnin’ around on your merry-go-round
You got me dizzy, dizzy, dizzy, dizzy, dizzy

Get it together
Or leave it alone
If you don’t want my lovin’
I’ll be gone

Now, now, babe

Get it together
Or leave it alone
You better, get it, get it
If you don’t want my lovin’
I’ll be gone

Get up off your high horse, girl
Think what you’re doin’, doin’
Get up off your high horse, girl
Think what you’re doin’, doin’

I can’t stand all this confusion
All this shuckin’ and jivin’
You’re putting down, down, down

Get it together
Or leave it alone
If you don’t want my lovin’
I’ll be gone
Gone, gone, gone, gone

Big girl what you’re doing
Throwin’ this heart of mine all away
Oh, big girl you know I love you
To keep a love like mine is hard this day
All ya gotta do, girl

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Jackson 5 has released many songs over the years besides Get It Together. Jackson 5 released songs from 1969 to 1979 spanning across albums like Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5, ABC, Third Album, Christmas Album, Maybe Tomorrow, Goin' Back To Indiana, Lookin' Through The Windows, In Japan, Skywriter, G.I.T.: Get It Together, Dancing Machine, Moving Violation, Joyful Jukebox Music, and Boogie. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Jackson 5.

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About Lyrics and Get It Together by Jackson 5

The lyrics for Get It Together are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1973 song by Jackson 5. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Get It Together 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 Get It Together - Jackson 5 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 Get It Together by Jackson 5 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 Get It Together" means the words set to the music of Get It Together, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jackson 5. 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 Get It Together and the lyrics to Get It Together are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jackson 5 who came here looking just for the lyrics to Get It Together, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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