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Here Comes The Weekend

This version of Here Comes The Weekend was released by The Jam in 1977.

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If we tell you that you’ve got two days to live
Then don’t complain, ‘cos that’s one more than you’d get in Zaire
So don’t hang around and be foolish
Do something constructive with your weekend

From Monday morning I work for Friday nights
Collect my wages, then try to paint on the smell of soap
‘Cause tonight I get ready early
Score what I need and go pick a girl up

It seems like ages since we had some fun
Here comes the weekend – I get to see the girls
Long live the weekend, the weekend is here
(The weekend starts here)

Everything feels right now
I know why I’m alive now
Everything else is a lie now
Now I know why I’m here

Here comes the weekend
I’m gonna do my head
Long live the weekend
The weekend is dead

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

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