Lyrics to
Gimme Some Lovin’

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Well, my temp’rature’s risin’ and my feet on the floor,
Twenty people knockin’ ’cause they’re wanting some more,
Let me in, baby, I don’t know what you’ve got,
But you’d better take it easy, this place is hot
So glad we made it, so glad we made it
You gotta gimme some lovin’, gimme some lovin’
Gimme some lovin’ every day.

Well, I feel so good, ev’rything is sounding hot,
Better take it easy, ’cause the place is on fire,
Been a hard day and I don’t know what to do,
Wait a minute, baby, it could happen to you.

So glad we made it, so glad we made it
You gotta gimme some lovin’, gimme some lovin’
Gimme some lovin’ every day.

Well, I feel so good, ev’rybody’s gettin’ high,
Better take it easy, ’cause the place is on fire
Been a hard day, nothin’ went too good,
Now I’m gonna relax, honey, ev’rybody should

So glad we made it, so glad we made it
You gotta gimme some lovin’, gimme some lovin’
Gimme some lovin’ every day

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Traffic has released many songs over the years besides Gimme Some Lovin’. Traffic released songs from 1967 to 1994 spanning across albums like Mr. Fantasy, Traffic, Last Exit, John Barleycorn Must Die, Welcome To The Canteen, The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys, Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory, When The Eagle Flies, and Far From Home. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Traffic.

About Lyrics and Gimme Some Lovin’ by Traffic

When you decide to study the lyrics to Gimme Some Lovin’, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Traffic. Some of the lyrics to Gimme Some Lovin’ have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Traffic and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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