Lyrics to
It’s Got To Be Love

This version of It’S Got To Be Love was released by The Monkees in 1970.

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I held you tight, and we fell, life took a breath
Made me weep, blanket kissed your lips
And I know that it tasted just like it felt
I’d never see all this happen to me
But it feels like love, makes me weep like love
And it tastes just like it’s got to be love
Oh it’s in the air, I feel it everywhere
I’m so happy ’cause I know it’s got to be love
No two ways about it, it’s got to be love

I look at you, and it looks like it when you talk
Oh it sounds like it deep inside
All my thoughts and my heart say it’s so
Still I’ve got to be sure ’cause I’ve been fooled before
But it looks like love and it sounds like love
And my heart tells me it’s got to be love
Oh it’s in the air, I feel it everywhere
I’m so happy ’cause I know it’s got to be love
No two ways about it, it’s got to be love

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

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