Lyrics to
Have A Good Time

This version of Have A Good Time was released by Paul Simon in 1975.

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Yesterday it was my birthday
I hung one more year on the line
I should be depressed
My life’s a mess
But I’m having a good time

I’ve been loving and loving
And loving
I’m exhausted from loving so well
I should go to bed
But a voice in my head
Says “Ah, what the hell”

Have a good time

Paranoia strikes deep in the heartland
But I think it’s all overdone
Exaggerating this and exaggerating that
They don’t have no fun

I don’t believe what I read in the papers
They’re just out to capture my dime
I ain’t worrying
And I ain’t scurrying
I’m having a good time

Have a good time

Maybe I’m laughing my way to disaster
Maybe my race has been run
Maybe I’m blind
To the fate of mankind
But what can be done?

So God bless the goods we was given
And God bless the U.S. of A.
And God bless our standard of livin’
Let’s keep it that way
And we’ll all have a good time

Have a good time

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About Lyrics and Have A Good Time by Paul Simon

When you decide to study the lyrics to Have A Good Time, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Paul Simon. Some of the lyrics to Have A Good Time have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Paul Simon and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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