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Give It Up Or Let Me Go

Released by Bonnie Raitt in 1972
From the Album: Give It Up |

This version of Give It Up Or Let Me Go was released by Bonnie Raitt in 1972.

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Well, I told you pretty baby, such a long time ago,
If I found you with another, well I’d walk right out your door,
Woh, you might call me crazy, but there’s one thing you should know,
Oh honey, if you want me to love you,
You’ve got to give it up or let me go.

I know it’s useless to be jealous, I couldn’t tire you if I tried,
But when I think of you messing behind my back
It brings a pain I just can’t hide.
Oh baby, I’ve been true to you.
And if I can make that sacrifice, honey you can do it too.

Well, you come home drunk and nasty, you won’t tell me where you’ve been.
Just when things are nice and sweet, you go back out again.
Why do you wanna mess up a good thing?
I’m gonna find me another man, one who wants to give me everything.

Well, I told you pretty baby, such a long time ago,
If I found you with another, well I’d walk right out your door.
Woh, you might call me crazy, but there’s one thing you should know.
Oh honey, if you want me to love you,
You’ve got to give it up or let me go.


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Bonnie Raitt has released many songs over the years besides Give It Up Or Let Me Go. Bonnie Raitt released songs from 1971 to 2005 spanning across albums like Bonnie Raitt, Give It Up, Takin' My Time, Streetlights, Home Plate, Sweet Forgiveness, The Glow, Green Light, Nine Lives, Nick Of Time, Luck Of The Draw, Longing In Their Hearts, Fundamental, Silver Lining, and Souls Alike. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Bonnie Raitt.

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The lyrics for Give It Up Or Let Me Go are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1972 song by Bonnie Raitt. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Give It Up Or Let Me Go 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 Give It Up Or Let Me Go - Bonnie Raitt and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

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If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Give It Up Or Let Me Go by Bonnie Raitt 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 Give It Up Or Let Me Go" means the words set to the music of Give It Up Or Let Me Go, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bonnie Raitt. 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 Give It Up Or Let Me Go and the lyrics to Give It Up Or Let Me Go are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bonnie Raitt who came here looking just for the lyrics to Give It Up Or Let Me Go, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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