Lyrics to
Here Comes Flash

This version of Here Comes Flash was released by The Kinks in 1973.

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You’d better run, you’d better fly.
Hide your daughters, hide your wives.
Lock your doors and stay inside
Here comes Flash.

There’s no way that you can win,
You must obey his every whim,
Or else he’s going to do you in.
Here comes Flash.

He will smile at you, be a friend to you,
Then he’s gonna screw you just like that.
He is going to use you, his heavies will abuse you,
And then he’s gonna lean on you,
Here comes Flash.

He is gonna rough you up,
Duff you up and touch you up,
And then he’s gonna screw you up.
Even though he’s mean on you,
There’s nothing else that you can do
Just sit back and take his abuse.
He will smile at you, be so sweet to you.
Then he’s gonna cheat on you.

You’d better run, you’d better fly.
Hide your daughters, hide your wives.
Lock your doors and stay inside.
Here comes Flash.

Once we loved and trusted him,
Now his thugs and bullies make us live in sin.
They suppress us, oppress us, molest us, possess us.

You’d better run, you’d better fly.
Hide your daughters, hide your wives.
And lock your doors and stay inside.

He will smile at you, be a friend to you,
Then he’s gonna screw you just like that.

You’d better run, you’d better fly.
Hide your daughters, hide your wives.
And lock your doors and stay inside.
Here comes Flash.

There’s no way that you can win,
You must obey his every whim
Or else he’s going to do you in.
Here Comes Flash.
Here Comes Flash.

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About Lyrics and Here Comes Flash by The Kinks

The lyrics to Here Comes Flash are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by The Kinks in 1973. Elements of the lyrics to Here Comes Flash are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by The Kinks and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Here Comes Flash back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Here Comes Flash by The Kinks in a number of 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 Here Comes Flash" means the words set to the music of Here Comes Flash, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Kinks. 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 Here Comes Flash and the lyrics to Here Comes Flash are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Kinks who came here looking just for the lyrics to Here Comes Flash, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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