Lyrics to
I Just Gotta Know

This version of I Just Gotta Know was released by Grand Funk Railroad in 1972.

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Hey, people are you ready to get in the streets,
To be your own police?
Are you ready to start tonight,
To stand up and fight for your rights?

Woah … oh, I gotta’ know.
I gotta’ know.
I gotta’ know.
I gotta’ know.

Young people would you do the patriotic thing?
Are you ready to stand up and sing,
That you’re tired of the war and all that shit?
Oh, tell me, are you ready to do your bit?

You gotta’ take a stand,
Give your brother a helping hand.
We got to start today,
So tomorrow our kids can play.
We better do what’s right,
So we don’t have to fight,
No more.

‘Bout the only way I see that we can change the plan,
Is to vote and get our man.
The man whose not afraid,
And one whose not over-paid.

You gotta’ take a stand,
Give your brother a helping hand.
We got to start today,
So tomorrow our kids can play.
We better do what’s right,
So we don’t have to fight,
No more.

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The lyrics for I Just Gotta Know are defined as the words making up the song released by Grand Funk Railroad in 1972. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to I Just Gotta Know have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Grand Funk Railroad and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to I Just Gotta Know by Grand Funk Railroad if you think through it. 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 I Just Gotta Know" means the words set to the music of I Just Gotta Know, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Grand Funk Railroad. 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 I Just Gotta Know and the lyrics to I Just Gotta Know are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Grand Funk Railroad who came here looking just for the lyrics to I Just Gotta Know, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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