Lyrics to
Hitch A Ride

This version of Hitch A Ride was released by Boston in 1976.

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Day is night in New York City
Smoke, like water, runs inside
Steel idle trees to pity
Every living things that’s died

Gonna hitch a ride
Head for the other side
Leave it all behind
Never change my mind
Gonna sail away
Sun lights another day
Freedom on my mind
Carry me away for the last time
Oh yeah

Life is like the coldest winter
People freeze the tears I cry
Words of hail their minds are into
I’ve got to crack this ice and fly

Gonna hitch a ride
Head for the other side
Leave it all behind
Never change my mind
Gonna sail away
Sun lights another day
Freedom on my mind
Carry me away for the last time
Oh yeah

Gonna hitch a ride
Head for the other side
Leave it all behind
Never change my mind
Gonna sail away
Sun lights another day
Freedom on my mind
Carry me away for the last time
Oh yeah

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Hitch A Ride, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Boston. Some of the lyrics to Hitch A Ride have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Boston and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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