Lyrics to
If You Can’t Beat Them

This version of If You Can’T Beat Them was released by Queen in 1978.

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Keep your chin up when you’re feeling lonely
Don’t let them get you down
Ain’t no use in sitting all alone
Hangin’ around for someone to call
Ohh they won’t come knocking at all
Don’t run and hide even if it hurts you inside
So I said give as good as you get

If you can’t beat them join them
You better do it ‘cos it makes you feel good
If you can’t beat them join them
You’re never gonna help yourself

Keep your fingers off my money
Don’t try and pull me down
You’re taking me out to wine and dine me
Trying to wind me round and around
Invite me to your little contract Ha! Ha!
Rumour has it that you could play dirty
I tell you what I’ll do about that
I’m playing at the wrong game yeah!

If you can’t beat them join them
You’ve got to do it ‘cos it makes you feel good
If you can’t beat them join them
You’re never gonna help yourself

If you can’t beat them join them
You’ve got to do it ‘cos it makes you feel good
If you can’t beat them join them
It’s everyone for themselves

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When you decide to study the lyrics to If You Can’T Beat Them, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Queen. Some of the lyrics to If You Can’T Beat Them have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Queen and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to If You Can’T Beat Them 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 If You Can’T Beat Them" means the words set to the music of If You Can’T Beat Them, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Queen. 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 If You Can’T Beat Them and the lyrics to If You Can’T Beat Them are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Queen who came here looking just for the lyrics to If You Can’T Beat Them, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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