Lyrics to
Light Up

This version of Light Up was released by Styx in 1975.

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Light up everybody
Join us in this celebration
Light up and be happy
Sweet, sweet sounds will fill the air

Every day’s a holiday when your lips meet mine
The music’s keepin’ time with our love
You are here, and so am I
The weather’s quite divine
So pass me round your wine, lovely one

All I need is just one hit to get me by
‘Cause baby when your near I’m halfway high

Light up, everybody
Join us in this celebration
Light up and be happy
Sweet, sweet sounds will fill the air

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Styx has released many songs over the years besides Light Up. Styx released songs from 1972 to 2005 spanning across albums like Styx, Styx II, The Serpent Is Rising, Man Of Miracles, Equinox, Crystal Ball, The Grand Illusion, Pieces Of Eight, Cornerstone, Paradise Theater, Kilroy Was Here, Caught In The Act, Edge Of The Century, Return To Paradise, Brave New World, and Big Bang Theory. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Styx.

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About Lyrics and Light Up by Styx

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

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

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