Lyrics to
Kicks

This version of Kicks was released by Lou Reed in 1975.

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Hey man, what’s your style
How you get your kicks for living
Hey man, what’s your style
How you get your adrenalin flowing now
How you get your adrenalin flowing

Hey man, what’s your style
I love the way, try to call now
Hey man, what’s your style
I ain’t jealous of the way you’re living
I ain’t jealous of the way you’re living

When you cut that dude with just a little mania
You did it so, … ah

When the blood comma’ down his neck …
Don’t you know it was better than sex, now, now, now
It was way better than getting mean
’cause it was, the final thing to do, now
Get somebody to come on to you
and then you just get somebody to
to now, now, come on to you
And then you kill ’em, yeah
You kill ’em, now, now, cause I need kicks …
I’m getting bored, I need, need, need, need now, now some kicks
Oh, give it, give it, give it, give it to me now, now, kicks

Hey man, what’s your style
How you get your kicks for living
Hey man, what’s your style
How you get your adrenalin flowing now, now, now, now, now
How you get your adrenalin flowing

Hey man, what’s your style
You know, I love the way you drive your car now
Hey man, what’s your style
I ain’t jealous of the way you’re living
Ain’t jealous of, now, now, the way you’re living

Hey, newspaper …
You did it so, wow, crudely, now
With that blood coming down his chest
It was way better than sex, now, now
It was way better than getting mean
It was the final thing to do
Get somebody to came, come on to you, then
Get somebody to, ah, come on to you
Better kill them now
Better kill him now, now
Yeah, yeah, yeah, kill him now, now
‘Cause I need kicks
I need some kicks
I’m getting bored
I need, need, need, need, need, need, need some kicks
Yeah, need, need, need, need, need, need, need some kicks
Oh, give it now, kicks
Yeah, need some kicks
Yeah, need some k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k, kicks
Oh, give it me now, now
Kicks, kicks, kicks, kicks …

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Kicks, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Lou Reed. Some of the lyrics to Kicks have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Lou Reed and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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