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I’m Up And I’m Leaving

This version of I’M Up And I’M Leaving was released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1972.

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I’m up and I’m leaving
Gonna spread my wings
Gonna get out the country to do big things
I’m up and I’m leaving
Gettin’ out of this place
Gonna get on the Green Line to join the rat race

And if you see my ma or pa
Tell them that I ain’t going far
I’m going to the great big city
I’m gonna buy what they call a car

I’m up and I’m leaving
Gonna spread my wings
Gonna get out the country and do big things
I’m up and I’m leaving
Gettin’ out of this place
Gonna get on the Green Line to join the rat race

Gonna leave the fields and the crops behind
I’m gonna see what life’s about
I know I’ve been saying it for the past six years
But now I’m getting out

I’m up and I’m leaving
Gonna spread my wings
Gonna get out the country and do big things
I’m up and I’m leaving
Gettin’ out of this place
Gonna get on the Green Line to join the rat race

And if you see my friend
The one without a name
Say to him that I’m gonna go
But I ain’t coming back again

Now listen Luke to what I say
If that Green Line comes around here
Tell all my friends when they come to the city
I’ll buy them all a beer

I’m up and I’m leaving
Gettin’ out of this place
Gonna get on the Green Line to join the rat race
I’m up and I’m leaving
Gonna spread my wings
Gonna get out the country and do big things

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When you decide to study the lyrics to I’M Up And I’M Leaving, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Some of the lyrics to I’M Up And I’M Leaving have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Manfred Mann's Earth Band and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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