Lyrics to
Get Up And Dance

This version of Get Up And Dance was released by The Doors in 1972.

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Oh people, get up and dance
The new days comin’, it’s the end of a chance
No need to worry, no need to hide
Everybody is on the same side
Oh people, get up and dance

The future’s ours if we just take a chance
No need to hurry, but no time to waste
The year 2000 is the time of hate
Oh people, get up and dance

Like walkin’ along an electric beam
It’s the old crystal palace dream
Oh people, get up and dance
The new days comin’, it’s the end of a chance
The future’s ours if we just take a chance
No need to hurry, but no time to waste
So come on people, get up and dance

Yeah, get up and dance
C’mon, lets get up and dance
Golden days
Get up and dance
We’ll have diamond nights
Get up and dance
We got sweet light shinin’
Get up and dance
Golden days
Get up and dance
We’ll have diamond nights
C’mon people, get up and dance
C’mon, get up and dance
Let’s dance
Get up and dance

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About Lyrics and Get Up And Dance by The Doors

When you decide to study the lyrics to Get Up And Dance, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by The Doors. Some of the lyrics to Get Up And Dance have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Doors and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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