Lyrics to
Let Me Ride

This version of Let Me Ride was released by Reo Speedwagon in 1972.

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I’ve been on the road now for a day and a night
I’ve been lonesome and hungry for miles
I’ve seen how you people been lookin your lies
I’m gonna kill y’all with your own smiles
But I wish that y’all could get a look at the news
And see what the man’s puttin down
Well I gotta hold a one yesterday night
And they threw me outta this town, oh yeah
Well it’s gonna be awhile before I get home
But when I do that’s the end of my roamin
Cause I’ve been gone a lifetime and I can’t believe
That the people I trust still can deceive

By the time I get back here things have to change
Cause if they don’t there’s gonna be alot of strange
Lookin people marchin round, clappin their hands
And they won’t stop till everyone understands

Oh yeah
Let me ride, let me ride
Let me ride now, let me ride now, yeah

Livin’s just like sleepin
Why is life not like a dream
Now the dawn is weepin
Another sunlight sees
Oh I’ve been here too long now
I got to go outside
Ya people gotta let me ride

Let me ride, ride, ride
I got to feel free inside

Ya people gotta let me ride
Let me ride, ride, ride
I gotta feel free inside

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Reo Speedwagon has released many songs over the years besides Let Me Ride. Reo Speedwagon released songs from 1971 to 2007 spanning across albums like REO Speedwagon, R.E.O / T.W.O., Ridin' The Storm Out, Lost In A Dream, This Time We Mean It, R.E.O., You Can Tune A Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish, Nine Lives, Hi Infidelity, Good Trouble, Wheels Are Turnin', Life As We Know It, The Earth, A Small Man, His Dog And A Chicken, Building The Bridge, and Find Your Own Way Home. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Reo Speedwagon.

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About Lyrics and Let Me Ride by Reo Speedwagon

The lyrics to Let Me Ride are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Reo Speedwagon used when the song was created in 1972. The lyrics to Let Me Ride have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Reo Speedwagon and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Let Me Ride by Reo Speedwagon. 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 Me Ride" means the words set to the music of Let Me Ride, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Reo Speedwagon. 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 Me Ride and the lyrics to Let Me Ride are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Reo Speedwagon who came here looking just for the lyrics to Let Me Ride, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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