Lyrics to
Life

This version of Life was released by Grand Funk Railroad in 1974.

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Life, this is an outrageous life,
We’re living in.
We call this turmoil our life,
Oh, and it’s gettin’ old coming over again.
But we don’t hear nobody,
Say what they’re after.
And we don’t hear nobody,
Searching for answers.
John Kennedy died,
They thought he had a solution.
We want to know,
What happened to the revolution.

Did we all get hung up in life.
And do we all know,
Just where were going.
Everything’s wrong,
So a change has got to be right (man, baby).

Life, for all the rest of our life,
Will we be wrapped up in strife.
Or, are we gonna start it all over again.
We want to have somebody,
Come up with the answers.
We want to be somebody,
That know’s what their after.
We hope that everybody,
Can hear what I’m sayin’.
We know that we will,
If we just keep on prayin’.

Learning to share what were standing on.
Learning to care ‘cus it’s been so long.
No one so big that they have it all.
We’ve got to give to the very small.

Life, Give me the rest of my life,
I want to finish it right.
So, I don’t have to start all over again.
Let’s get together,
For some satisfaction.
Let’s stand together,
On a chain reaction.
We need somebody,
We could really depend on.
Don’t wait till tomorrow,
‘Cause it just might be too long.

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About Lyrics and Life by Grand Funk Railroad

The lyrics for Life are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1974 song by Grand Funk Railroad. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Life have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Life - Grand Funk Railroad and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Life by Grand Funk Railroad in multiple ways. 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 Life" means the words set to the music of Life, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Grand Funk Railroad. 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 Life and the lyrics to Life are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Grand Funk Railroad who came here looking just for the lyrics to Life, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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