Lyrics to
Get Ready

This version of Get Ready was released by Eric Clapton in 1974.

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Ready, get ready. Ready.
He’s a man who’s going to break your heart.
Ready, get ready. Ready.
He’s a man who’s going to break your heart.

Well, you’ve been fooling ’round and I don’t know why.
Left me on my own, sitting high and dry.
But I’m going to get you back, just you wait and see;
You can’t do those things that you’re doing to me.

I’ve never needed a running ’round pissing hound,
Checking out the bitches in heat.
You’ve got a lot of nerve, dishing out what you serve,
Waggling your piece of meat.

I want to get revenge on your sinful sins.
I got to get you back for what you did back then.
And now you’ve got it back, life is misery.
Well, ha ha ha to you, ha ha to me.

Ready, get ready. Ready.
He’s the one that’s going to break your heart.
Ready, get ready. Ready.
He’s the one that’s going to break your heart, break your heart,
Break your heart, break your heart.

Get ready, get ready, get ready.
He’s the one who’s going to break your heart, break your heart,
Break your heart, break your heart,
Break your heart, break your heart,
Break your heart.

Get ready, get ready, get ready.
‘Cause he’s the one who’s going to break your heart, break your heart,
Break your heart, break your heart.

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About Lyrics and Get Ready by Eric Clapton

The lyrics to Get Ready are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Eric Clapton used when the song was created in 1974. The lyrics to Get Ready have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Eric Clapton and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Get Ready by Eric Clapton. 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 Ready" means the words set to the music of Get Ready, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Eric Clapton. 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 Ready and the lyrics to Get Ready are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Eric Clapton who came here looking just for the lyrics to Get Ready, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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