Lyrics to
Keep Us On The Road

This version of Keep Us On The Road was released by Motorhead in 1977.

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We began at the beginning,
Moving high and moving fast,
Machine’s clean, so sweet and mean,
Should have known it wouldn’t last,
But when I took her clothes off
I thought she would explode,
Dropped another handful,
Kept Us On The Road
The black things came from nowhere,
But they couldn’t beat the shield,
They flew across the highway,
But we smashed them in the field,
But when I made a suggestion
I thought she would explode,
Dropped another handful,
Keep Us On The Road
It was round about the third day,
I remember it so clear,
We came across a bad vibe,
Naked, blind with fear,
And that was all we left there,
Ain’t moving staring cold,
Dropped another handful,
Keep Us On The Road

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

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