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(Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket

This version of (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket was released by Elton John in 1975.

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I can hound you if I need to
Sip your brandy from a crystal shoe
In the corner, in the corner
While the others climb reaching dizzy heights
The world’s in front of me in black and white
I’m on the bottom line, I’m on the bottom line

I’d have a cardiac if I had such luck
Lucky losers, lucky losers landing on skid row
Landing on skid row
While the Diamond Jims
And the Kings road pimps
Breath heavy in their brand new clothes
I’m on the bottom line, I’m on the bottom line

And I gotta get a meal ticket
To survive you need a meal ticket
To stay alive you need a meal ticket
Feel no pain, no pain
No regret, no regret
When the line’s been signed
You’re someone else
Do yourself a favor, the meal ticket does the rest

Shake a hand if you have to
Trust in us and we will love you anyway, anyway
Don’t leave us stranded in the jungle
With fifty percent that’s hard to handle
Ain’t that so, ain’t that so

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About Lyrics and (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket by Elton John

The lyrics for (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1975 song by Elton John. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket 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 (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket - Elton John and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket by Elton John 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 (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket" means the words set to the music of (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Elton John. 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 (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket and the lyrics to (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Elton John who came here looking just for the lyrics to (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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