Lyrics to
Juke Box Music

This version of Juke Box Music was released by The Kinks in 1977.

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There’s a lady plays her fav’rite records
On the jukebox ev’ry day.
All day long she plays the same old songs,
And she believes the things that they say.

Other ladies like to prance around
And flirt and dance the whole night through,
But she just sits and listens to her juke box records,
‘Cause that’s all that she wants to do.

She sings along with all the saddest songs,
And she believes the stories are real.
She let’s the music dictate the way that she feels.

It’s only juke box music,
Only juke box music.
It’s only music,
Only juke box music,
Only juke box music.

Seems to me she’s in a fantasy.
She’s livin’ in a world of her own.
And we all agree that she’s a mystery,
Because she’d rather be all alone.

Ev’ry guy will do his best to try
To put that music out of her head.
Forget all the songs,
And just dance to the music instead.

It’s only juke box music,
Only juke box music.
It’s only music,
Only juke box music,
Only juke box music.

It’s all because of that music
That we’re slowly driftin’ apart.
But it’s only there to dance to,
So you shouldn’t take it to heart.

Music, only juke box music.
Only music, only juke box music.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Juke Box Music, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by The Kinks. Some of the lyrics to Juke Box Music have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Kinks and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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