Lyrics to
Get Up

This version of Get Up was released by The Kinks in 1978.

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Here’s a song for all the little men who get forgotten time and time again
Here’s a message for the little guy, don’t let this situation pass you by
You’re in the middle while the big mouths fight
You get it from the left and the right, ain’t it crazy

So get up off your easy chairs, we’ve got a lot to do out there
Well ain’t we?
Good’s gone bad, right is wrong, don’t know which side I’m on lately

Get up from the down you’re in
Come out of your homes and let’s see your faces
Get up out of your easy chairs, get up and show ’em that you’re there
Get up it’s your one salvation
Wise up to the situation

Somebody gotta get up and shout
Somebody gotta give us some clout
You’re the ones to make it all work out
It all depends on you

Get up off your arses men
Don’t let ’em think you’re getting lazy
Get up out of your easy chairs
We gotta lot to do out there, well ain’t we
Get up, Get up, Get up,
Get up, Get up, Get up

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About Lyrics and Get Up by The Kinks

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

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

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