Lyrics to
Let It Loose

This version of Let It Loose was released by The Rolling Stones in 1972.

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Who’s that woman on your arm all dressed up to do you harm?
And I’m hip to what she’ll do, give her just about a month or two.
Bit off more than I can chew and I knew what it was leading to,
Some things, well, I can’t refuse,
One of them, one of them the bedroom blues.
She delivers right on time, I can’t resist a corny line,
But take the shine right off you shoes,
Carryin’, carryin’ the bedroom blues.
Oo…
In the bar you’re getting drunk, I ain’t in love, I ain’t in luck.
Hide the switch and shut the light, let it all come down tonight.
Maybe your friends think I’m just a stranger,
Some face you’ll never see no more.
Let it all come down tonight.
Keep those tears hid out of sight, let it loose, let it all come down.

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The lyrics for Let It Loose are defined as the words making up the song released by The Rolling Stones in 1972. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Let It Loose have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only The Rolling Stones and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Let It Loose by The Rolling Stones if you think through it. 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 Let It Loose" means the words set to the music of Let It Loose, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Rolling Stones. 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 Let It Loose and the lyrics to Let It Loose are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Rolling Stones who came here looking just for the lyrics to Let It Loose, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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