Lyrics to
Got To Be There

This version of Got To Be There was released by Jackson 5 in 1973.

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Got to be there (got to be there)
Got to be there in the morning
When she says hello to the world

Got to be there (got to be there)
Got to be there in her down time
And show her that she’s my girl
Oooh, what a feeling there’ll be
The moment I know she loves me
‘Cause when I look in her eyes I realize
I need her sharing the world beside me

So I got to be there (got to be there)
Got to be there in the morning
And welcome her into my world
And show her that she’s my girl
When she says hello world
(Got to be there)
(Got to be there)

I need her sharing the world beside me

That’s why I got to be there (got to be there)
Got to be there where it all begins
And that’s everywhere she goes
I got to be there so she knows
That when she’s with me
She’s home (oooh, she’s home)
(Oooh, she’s home), yea

(Got to be there)
Got to be there, got to be there
(Got to be there)
Got to be there, got to be there
(Got to be there)
Ooh, baby, baby, got to be there, got to be there
(Got to be there)
Got to be there, got to be there
(Got to be there)
Ooh, got to be there, got to be there
(Got to be there)
Ooh, got to be there, got to be there

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Jackson 5 has released many songs over the years besides Got To Be There. Jackson 5 released songs from 1969 to 1979 spanning across albums like Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5, ABC, Third Album, Christmas Album, Maybe Tomorrow, Goin' Back To Indiana, Lookin' Through The Windows, In Japan, Skywriter, G.I.T.: Get It Together, Dancing Machine, Moving Violation, Joyful Jukebox Music, and Boogie. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Jackson 5.

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About Lyrics and Got To Be There by Jackson 5

The lyrics to Got To Be There are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Jackson 5 used when the song was created in 1973. The lyrics to Got To Be There have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Jackson 5 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 Got To Be There by Jackson 5. 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 Got To Be There" means the words set to the music of Got To Be There, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jackson 5. 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 Got To Be There and the lyrics to Got To Be There are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jackson 5 who came here looking just for the lyrics to Got To Be There, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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