Lyrics to
Hang On To Yourself

This version of Hang On To Yourself was released by David Bowie in 1972.

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Well she’s a tongue twisting storm, she will come to the
show tonight
Praying to the light machine
She wants my honey not my money she’s a funky-thigh
collector
Layin’ on ‘lectric dreams

So come on, come on
we’ve really got a good thing going
Well come on, well come on
If you think we’re gonna make it
You better hang on to yourself

We can’t dance, we don’t talk much
We just ball and play
But then we move like tigers on vaseline
Well the bitter comes out better on a stolen guitar
You’re the blessed, we’re the Spiders from Mars

Come on, ah, come on, ah

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Hang On To Yourself, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by David Bowie. Some of the lyrics to Hang On To Yourself have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only David Bowie and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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