Lyrics to
If You Don’t Like Rock & Roll

This version of If You Don’T Like Rock & Roll was released by Rainbow in 1975.

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You’d never know there was some music playin’
Until you talked your way inside the door

And then a sound like rollin’ thunder
Begins to push you right thru the floor

And there’s a great white sign
With big black letters
That just about explains it all

If you don’t like rock ‘n’ roll
Well, if you don’t like rock ‘n’ roll
If you don’t like rock ‘n’ roll
Then it’s too late now
Well it’s too late now

Hey hey
Of course there was the usual lady
And she was dressed the way the stories tell

So bein’ cool I made a move to grab her
But you could see she read story well

And then she whipped out a card
With big black letters

That just about explained it all
Well if you don’t like rock ‘n’ roll
If you don’t like rock ‘n’ roll
Well if you don’t like rock ‘n’ roll
Then you’re too late now
Then you’re too late now

Well, if you don’t like rock ‘n’ roll
Well, if you don’t like rock ‘n’ roll, yeah
If you don’t like rock ‘n’ roll
Well it’s too late nown
You’re too late now

If you don’t like rock ‘n’ roll
If you don’t like my rock ‘n’ roll
Then you’re too late now
Then you’re too late now
Then you’re too late, too late now

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About Lyrics and If You Don’T Like Rock & Roll by Rainbow

The lyrics for If You Don’T Like Rock & Roll are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1975 song by Rainbow. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to If You Don’T Like Rock & Roll have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for If You Don’T Like Rock & Roll - Rainbow and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to If You Don’T Like Rock & Roll by Rainbow in multiple 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 If You Don’T Like Rock & Roll" means the words set to the music of If You Don’T Like Rock & Roll, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Rainbow. 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 Don’T Like Rock & Roll and the lyrics to If You Don’T Like Rock & Roll are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Rainbow who came here looking just for the lyrics to If You Don’T Like Rock & Roll, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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